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In view of the fact that de Chardin was, I have always supposed, deeply religious, I would have expected that he would have acknowledged alpha and omega tendencies within the 'god' in whom he believed. It would be difficult to imagine an omnipotent god figure (or state of being or....whatever) that did not also assume that "god' to be present in the beginning and at the end. Indeed to be the alpha and omega.

All of which gets us no further along the road travelled by anyone not shackled by religious belief and able to indulge in fancy. For example is our understanding of infinity a characteristic of our flawed experience of time? After all we can only experience one sort of time-- the split-second that is our recognition of the present. Under that sort of thinking infinity becomes less of a road to be followed and more part of everyday existence. Perhaps!!