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NASHVILLE - Reverend Michael Dowd, author of the bold new book “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World” is bringing his cosmic gospel to two Nashville-area Unity churches Sept. 14-17.

Dowd, an ordained Christian minister, and his wife Connie Barlow, an acclaimed science writer, are packing pews and leaving audiences across America awestruck with their programs that present evolution as theology, not theory, and science as divine revelation.

“Trying to understand reality without an evolutionary worldview is like trying to understand infection without microscopes or the structure of the Universe without telescopes,” Dowd said. “It’s not merely difficult, it’s 

 

The Dowds will be appearing:

Sunday, Sept. 14 for a 10:45 a.m. Special Sermon at the Unity Church for Positive Living, 4319 Saundersville Rd., Old Hickory.

615-847-7480

Monday, Sept. 15 for a 7 p.m. Gospel of Evolution Presentation at the Unity Church for Positive Living.

Wednesday, Sept. 17 for a 7 p.m. Gospel of Evolution Presentation at the Unity Church of Life, 130 Cannon St., Murfreesboro.

615-907-6033

impossible. These are not the ‘End Times’ for humanity, they are just the beginning.

“Earth is billions of years old, and we only emerged a few million years ago, a geological blink of an eye,” he continued. “Fossils were not put here to test our faith; they were left behind by a divine creative process that made everything we experience around us and within us. Fossils teach us faith by showing proof positive of the grace that has guided us safely through deep time to the present moment.”

Since 2002 the couple have lived out of a van, permanently traveling the continent, teaching and preaching the “Gospel of Evolution” – a message that has earned them the moniker: America’s Evolutionary Evangelists.

Dowd’s book and the couple’s mobile ministry are at the forefront of a new religious movement in America based on Evolution Theology. The perspective proposes a marriage of science and religion that is being embraced by those on both sides of the debate over the origins of the Universe and evolution of life on Earth, including five Nobel Prize-winning scientists and a long list of respected religious leaders, from Baptists to Buddhists.

“The Big Bang never ended! God didn’t stop communicating truth vital to human wellbeing thousands of years ago, when religious insights were recorded on papyrus and animal skins,” Dowd said. “God is still faithfully and publicly communicating with us today through the worldwide self-correcting scientific enterprise. Facts are God’s native tongue. Studying evolution is like following cosmic breadcrumbs home.”

Grounded in mainstream science and preached with Pentecostal fervor, the former anti-evolution fundamentalist turned evolutionary missionary shares a “God’s eye view” of everything from microbiology to supernovas. His provocative program is inspiring evolutionary epiphanies among believers and non-believers alike, and liberating literalists left, right, and center.

For more information, visit ThankGODforEVOLUTION.com.

 
 
 
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By: G33K-Chik on 8/28/08
This is pure crap. And so is "unitarian". God's Holy Word is NOT to be trifled with. Go back to Genesis and see for yourself how the earth was created. And the rest of the book tells you how to obtain salvation....through repentance and accepting Jesus' gift of eternal life through His mercy and forgiveness. Not all roads lead to God! Just because it's a church, does not mean it's Holy. Be discerning dear people (Acts 17). Shalom....

By: organguy23 on 8/29/08
I love America, and I love that we can have a diversity of opinions. I respect the rights of those who have religious, philosophical and scientific beliefs, including Mr. Dowd and Ms. Barlow. Evolutionism, like all other religious beliefs, cannot be and never has been demonstrated in any scientific study. How do you reproduce origins? It's impossible, by definition, to reproduce origins. Where is a living example TODAY of anything in the process of evolution? Did evolution cease to exist just when I wanted to go and see some? So, even though I think evolution is just another religious fantasy, completely without any scientific basis geologically, genetically, astronomically, biologically, or mathematically, I've got nothing against fantasy. I love fairy tales and I read fiction - I just don't think any of it should be forced down anyone's throat as a required belief system - in a school or anywhere else. And, by the way, mainstream science has always been at the forefront of incorrect teaching and bad science - flat earth, the earth as the center of the solar system, "bleeding" patients as good medical practice, and too many other errors to list in a brief e-mail or even an extremely lengthy book. But I still have to say, "Long live freedom of thought and speech." The other thing I would say is, "Neither your opinions nor my opinions are the laws of nature." Have a good day!

By: euthman on 8/31/08
G33K-Chik: Sorry, but if you actually read Genesis critically, you'll find that it is so self-contradictory that it's impossible to accept it as literal, even if you are unhinged enough to buy into the claims (e.g., 6000-year-old earth) that are clearly contradicted by scientific investigation.

The basis of religion is faith in received authority, while the basis of science is observation and experimentation. The two processes are utterly dissimilar and irreconcilable. Dowd and Barlow are to be commended for trying to bring real science to religious fundamentalists, but ultimately their attempts to alloy the two fields will hit a philosophical brick wall. Even as early as the 5th century, the great church father St. Augustine admonished believers to stay out of scientific debates. He knew even then, as we know now, that when science and religion get together, stupidity invariably follows.


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