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0143143883

Thank God for Evolution

How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World.
By Michael Dowd
8 CDs - New - Abridged - Approx.9 hours
Penguin Audio - Auigust, 2008
ISBN - 10: 0143143883
ISBN - 13: 978-0143143888
 
 

The debate over evolution versus creation, science versus religion, has been bitter and divisive, with both camps refusing to see the points of the other. Now, Reverend Michael Dowd puts those divisions to rest. Dowd offers a perspective that allows both views to exist in harmony. With evidence from contemporary astrophysics, geology, biology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology, he finds a unity, not a collision, with religion. Ranging over concepts as diverse as deep ecology, original sin, the Big Bang, salvation, and sustainability, Thank God for Evolution celebrates a cosmology that is comprehensive and non-exclusionary. Dowd provides a solid moral and ethical foundation for a life of passion and deep meaning in troubled times. Science and religion are, in Dowd’s view, two sides of the same coin.
Embraced and lauded by Nobel laureates in the scientific community and religious leaders alike, Thank God for Evolution is intended for the broadest of audiences. It reaches across religious lines and speaks to Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist, agnostic, and other beliefs with a uniquely inclusive approach.
No matter what an individual’s beliefs or background, Thank God for Evolution will expand the horizon of what is possible for self, for relationships, and for our world. It will help readers communicate and relate to those who hold very different religious or philosophical worldviews. This book is a perfect gift, not to convert others to one way of thinking but to converse with them deeply about those things that matter most.

The Reverend Michael Dowd is America’s evolutionary evangelist. He and his wife, Connie Barlow, an acclaimed science writer, have traveled the country sharing their sacred view of cosmic, biological, and human evolution. Equally at home in both conservative and liberal settings, and uniquely gifted at building bridges between religious and nonreligious people, Rev. Dowd is passionate about sharing the fourteen-billion-year epic of evolution in ways that uplift and expand heart, mind, and soul. During the 1980s and 90s, Dowd was pastor of three United Church of Christ congregations, and has worked with diverse religious leaders across the country on environmental initiatives, peace and justice issues, and social reform. He holds a Master of Divinity degree. Rev. Dowd has served on the boards of the North American Conference on Christianity and Ecology; the Ohio Conference United Church of Christ (UCC) Integrity of Creation, Justice, and Peace task force; and the Hudson Valley Sustainable Communities Network. He has also served on the steering committees of the International Network of Biblical Storytellers and the UCC Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility

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