My introduction to du Nouy is from an obscure book that was gifted to me while in Loyola. For a long time, almost 20 years I did not know who the author was and then came to know that the author was a French philosopher and scientist.The wikipedia says "Du Noüy believed that mankind should have confidence in science, but be aware that we know less about the material world than is commonly believed".
Human destiny combines very elaborately the material sciences with the themes of Christianity in that both evolutionary theory and the Christian view of humanity are combined so beautifully. One almost is convinced that science and religion are compatible. Or perhaps I was already convinced that science and religion go hand in hand that du Nouy had an immediate appeal to me.
At times he sounds like Arthur Koestler, but Koestler's answers to human problems are more pragmatic and scientific whereas du Nouy holds religion above science and considers the immersedness of humans in an ongoing evolution on a spiritual plane in enlightening us.
Koestler I believe cannot wait for the spiritual evolution to save us because he thinks if we wait for that slow process to save us we would not be left at all to be saved. Also Koestler never seems to have considered the postulate that evolution is still continuing on a spiritual plane. He considers the fault in the construction of the human brain as the dead end in evolution. Assuming Koestler is right in the postulate of the muddled hierarchy of the human brain, the last answer may still be Koestler's.
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