No defense against Teilhard de Chardin, participant in the Piltdown Man hoax.
Since you say there is no defense for Teilhard, it ought to follow logically that there is no defense for the long ages, Darwinism, evolutionary biology, alchemy, Hermeticism, spiritualized matter, and cosmic evolution espoused by him as well. All of it is as the Kolbe Center rightly noted, “strange doctrine.”