Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 was a human palaeontologist, mystic, and philosopher who defined the term "noosphere" (PROSE: The Book of the War) and predicted the Omega Point. (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War) In the City of the Saved, Teilhard de Chardin became Pope Peter of the Human Catholic Church by the time of the Civil War. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved..., A Hundred Words from a Civil War)

The Seventh Doctor mentioned meeting a man of Chardin's description who said that he believed all humanity was developing toward a cosmic unity which would be as one with God, and that human consciousness would be as one being. (PROSE: The Pit)