“We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
I’m reading “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World” by Michael Dowd … and wish to share some of my impressions.
https://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Evolution-Marriage-Transform/dp/0452295343
In short, Dowd has turned the 13.8 billion years of evolution, of the universe, into what would fit a religious model … with God “Ultimate Reality” behind it.
Dowd use to be a Baptist evangelist of the gospel of Christ, but is now, along with his wife Connie, a itinerant evangelical preacher of the gospel – good news – of the “Greatest Story ever told,” of the grand deep space and deep time message of how the universe evolved over billions of years, into the vast universe our powerful telescopes are revealing to us today, right up to the consciousness reading these words.
It is an amazing tale, and he tells it with the conviction of a preacher. He has some amazing conceptions in the book. Like : “Facts are the native tongue of God,” and ; "all major religions in the world are “flat earth religions,” in that they came out of the times when most everyone believed the earth was flat. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, the apostle Paul, as well as Buddha, and the like, could never have known about the universe such as we do today.
He says, God has been revealing his truth long before our “flat earth book” was written, and continued long afterward. He distinguishes between “Private Revelation,” and “Public Revelation” ; the former can’t be proven, and the latter can be objectively proven, by most all – like peer review.
Has anyone out here encountered this book? Any feedback on it? Any detractors?