Omega Point
<p>The <b>Omega Point</b> is the purported maximum level of <a title="Complexity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity">complexity</a> and <a title="Consciousness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness">consciousness</a> towards which some believe the <a title="Universe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe">universe</a> is evolving. The term coined by the <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</a> <a title="Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit">Jesuit</a> <a title="Pierre Teilhard de Chardin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin">Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</a> (1881–1955).
In this theory, developed by Teilhard in <i>The Future of Man</i> (1950), the universe is constantly developing towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, a theory of evolution that Teilhard called the <a title="Law of Complexity/Consciousness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Complexity/Consciousness">Law of Complexity/Consciousness</a>. For Teilhard, the universe can only move in the direction of more complexity and consciousness if it is being drawn by a supreme point of complexity and consciousness. Thus Teilhard postulates the Omega Point as this supreme point of complexity and consciousness, which in his view is the actual <i>cause</i> for the universe to grow in complexity and consciousness. In other words, the Omega Point exists as supremely complex and conscious, transcendent and independent of the evolving universe.
Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian <a title="Logos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos">Logos</a>, namely <a title="Christ the Logos" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Logos">Christ</a>, who draws all things into himself, who in the words of the <a title="Nicene Creed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed">Nicene Creed</a>, is "God from God", "Light from Light", "True God from true God," and "through him all things were made."
The idea is developed in later writings, such as those of <a title="John Godolphin Bennett" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Godolphin_Bennett">John Godolphin Bennett</a> (1965), <a title="John David Garcia (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_David_Garcia&action=edit&redlink=1">John David Garcia</a> (1971), <a title="Paolo Soleri" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri">Paolo Soleri</a> (1981), <a title="Frank Tipler" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tipler">Frank Tipler</a> (1994), and <a title="Ray Kurzweil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil">Ray Kurzweil</a>, as well as in <a title="Science fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction">science fiction</a> literature.</p>