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Science meets belief as couple put evolution in a sacred context

San Diego Union Tribune
Saturday, 23 February 2008
By Sandi Dolbee RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR Some say you can tell a lot about people from the cars they drive. The Rev. Michael Dowd drives a camper van with drawings of two fish, one labeled “Jesus” and the other “Darwin,” who are kissing each other with red hearts above them. For nearly six years, Dowd, a former United Church of Christ minister, and his wife, science writer Connie Barlow, have traveled the country preaching the gospel of evolution with evangelistic zeal. It's time to declare an end to the war between science and faith, he argues. He says the facts are indisputable: Earth and its inhabitants evolved over billions of years. But that's OK, he adds, because God, or whatever name you want to give to a higher power, was and is still involved. “Imagine a realm of nothingness,” says Dowd, invoking an image of the beginning of time. “God is the essence of that everything. Everything that emerges is not emerging outside of God, but within God.”
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Preacher to tell O.C. church Thank God for Evolution

Orange County Register
Sunday, 24 February 2008
by Gary Robbins Author-preacher Michael Dowd will visit Anaheim’s Unitarian Universalist Church on Friday to give a free public talk in which he’ll present evolution as theology instead of theory. The 7 p.m. lecture is largely drawn from his new book, “Thank God for Evolution!”, which has been praised by five Nobel laureates. I recently asked Rev. Dowd about his views via e-mail: Q: Why should Christians thank God for evolution? It runs counter to the message in the Bible.
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First Presbyterian Church to celebrate Evolution Weekend

Northeast Tennessee Elizabethton Star
Sunday, 10 February 2008
By Greg Miller “Evolution Weekend is an outgrowth of the Clergy Letter Project,” said the Rev. John Shuck, pastor. “This was started by Dr. Michael Zimmerman of Butler University. This is from the Web site: “The Clergy Letter Project is an endeavor designed to demonstrate that religion and science can be compatible and to elevate the quality of the debate of this issue.” Evolution Weekend Shuck’s sermon for this weekend is “Evolutionary Christianity.” “The fact of evolution has caused me to look differently at many of the traditional Christian doctrines that were formulated when people believed that we lived in a three-tiered universe,” Shuck said. “The ancients believed that the earth was flat and the sun, moon, and stars moved across the dome of the sky. Science has broadened our horizons of cosmology as well as the emergence and evolution of life on earth.” Shuck continued, “Evolutionary Christianity takes seriously that the Universe is 13.7 billion years old and that life on Earth began 4 billion years ago. Human beings are part of this evolutionary process. Evolutionary Christianity begins with the facts of science and then seeks to understand our meaning and purpose. Evolutionary Christianity does not throw out traditional Christian theology by any means, but seeks to reinterpret it to fit our modern understanding. As our collective knowledge evolves, Christianity also evolves.”
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Weekend devoted to science, religion

San Mateo County Times
Friday, 08 February 2008
Congregations worldwide to explore dichotomy, express support of evolution By Christine Morente BELMONT — Tom Tan does not have problems attesting that God is the architect of life. In fact, the biochemist has faith that evolution didn't just happen by accident. "We're learning more and more about how cells work, how DNA is regulated, how RNA is regulated, and how protein is regulated," the San Francisco resident said. "It's incredibly complex. It's hard for me to imagine that molecules came about, and all of a sudden we have life." Tan, 33, is a member of the Congregational Church of Belmont. He thinks that science and faith go hand in hand, and he's pleased that he's not the only one. This weekend, many congregations across the country and around the world will participate in Evolution Weekend, starting Friday and ending on Sunday.
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America's Evolutionary Evangelist Michael Dowd

Sedona.biz
Monday, 04 February 2008
Sedona, AZ - Come hear Reverend Michael Dowd share a gospel that's billions of years old, and find out why Americans everywhere are engaging in a life-changing new conversation about Creation. The place is the Sedona Public Library. The date is Thursday, February 7th at 7PM. See for yourself why Nobel Prize winning scientists and religious leaders across the spectrum are lining up to praise his bold new book that builds bridges, provides guidance, and restores realistic hope for people of any religion or belief system. Reverend Michael Dowd has been technically homeless for the past six years, roaming the fifty states in his Dodge Sprinter (named "Angel"), speaking to hundreds of congregations a year. He's on a mission, he says, to proclaim the gospel. The "Gospel of Evolution," that is.
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