About Teilhard de Chardin -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- I. Evolution: a closer look -- II. The Cartesian connection -- III. Complexity/Consciousness: law or myth? -- IV. In search of creative union -- V. The Omega hypothesis -- VI. The God of evolution -- VII. Biblical fall and evolutionist ascent -- VIII. The idea of progress -- IX. Socialization and super-organism -- X. The new religion -- Appendix: Gnosticism today