Smith claims that for Teilhard, evolution is not only a scientific theory but an irrefutable truth "immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience";P. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, Harper & Row, New York, 1965, p. 140 – quoted in W. Smith, Op. cit., p. 2. it constitutes the foundation of his doctrine.W. Smith, Op. cit., p. 2. Matter becomes spirit and humanity moves towards a super-humanity thanks to complexification (physico-chemical, then biological, then human), socialization, scientific research and technological and cerebral development;W. Smith, Op. cit., pp. 177, 201. the explosion of the first atomic bomb is one of its milestones,P. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, Op. cit, p. 149 – quoted in W. Smith, Op. cit., p. 243-244. while waiting for "the vitalization of matter by the creation of super-molecules, the remodeling of the human organism by means of hormones, control of heredity and sex by manipulation of genes and chromosomes [...]".P. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Mankind, Harper & Row, New York, 1964, p. 149 – quoted in W. Smith, Op. cit., p. 243.
