Shimpu to Zugaikotsu Pekin Genjin Wo Hakken Shita "Itan Sha" to Shinka Ron No Hatten / Hara Title : the Jesuit & the Skull

[Machine Translation] Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 -1955 ), a leading paleontologist, geologist, and devout Jesuit, is known for his unique theories that fused science and faith. His youthful memories of the harsh battlefields of World War I, where poisonous gas wafted in the air, also added a shadowy quality to his work. However, because of his radicalism, he was regarded as a heretic by the church, and he was "exiled" from Paris to China, a foreign country. In China, he witnessed the discovery of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian, and made an important contribution to the research of "The Missing Link. The search continues to this day for the bones of these proto-humans, which disappeared amidst the chaos of wartime and the involvement of the Japanese military.

一流の古生物学者、地質学者にして、敬虔なイエズス会士であったピエール・テイヤール・ド・シャルダン神父(1881‐1955)は、科学と信仰を融合させた独自の理論で知られる。そこには若き日に経験した第一次大戦の、毒ガス漂う苛烈な戦場の記憶も陰翳を添えた。しかし、その先鋭性ゆえに教会からは異端視され、テイヤールはパリから異郷中国へと「流刑」に処される。図らずもその中国で、彼は周口店における北京原人の発見に立ち会い、「ミッシング・リンク」の研究に重要な貢献を果たすことになった。戦時の混乱のさなかに消え去り、日本軍の関与も囁かれるこの原人骨は、今日なお捜索が続く。