b'The encyclical confi rms the understanding of Pierre Teilhard de Chardina Jesuit paleontologist and geologist that our fate is bound with nature and the story of our emergence from the deep time of the universe. Both Teilhard and Laudato si seek to ignite human energy toward creating a fl ourishing future (LS 83, note 53). Laudato si expresses a profound wonder at creation and tremendous sorrow at what is being lost in this moment in the natural world and thus in the human psyche. The encyclical asks, how can we fi nd our way forward? COSMOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON CREATION[There are] echoes in the encyclical of the thought of Teilhard de Chardin and of Thomas Berry. Both saw something akin to Benedicts grammar of nature as reflecting an evolutionary unfolding of a deep patterning in Earths ecosystems directly related to the larger evolution of the universe. This included an interiority that Teilhard called consciousness and an inner patterning of things he described as spirit-matter. Along with what Teilhard called his metaphysics, he was also prescient in seeing how emergent properties and self-organizing dynamics led to greater consciousness and complexification in evolution.ARTICLE 19'