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Thank God For Evolution (2008)

by Michael Dowd(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1615544194 (ISBN13: 9781615544196)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

review 1: I sincerely wish that I could give this a higher than a "meh" in it's rating. Dowd's text is compelling, full of fresh perspectives, and bubbling over with energy. I found his perspective interesting, if breathless. It opens the possibility of more open and honest dialog, and presents concepts of God that do, indeed, embrace the world of science apologetically. One of my issues is, though, that he seems to have exchanged one form of fundamentalism with another, newer one. There is little in the way of critique of naturalism or reductionist thought in this book, indeed it is almost a strictly one sided "dialog" with "science" dictating to theology. I also found the almost condescending at times tone towards traditional religious thought (often times called "flat Earth" reli... moregion) to be tiresome.The acceptance of pantheism as a part of the structure of Dowd's new theological schema is treated as an understood, but not explored as fully as one might hope. In all, the text is to ambitious, to overly emotive, and to self possessed to be as great as it could have been.
review 2: This is a smart book. Incredibly so. I know it pushes the envelope for many people, but I also think it would be a soothing salve and welcome explanation and interpretive lens, spiritually, existentially and cosmologically, for MANY MANY folks out there. It's not perfectly written. There's almost too much, too quickly, in too many ways. But there's a brilliance underneath it, in its energy that moves and inspires me. The first 100 pages were a little sluggish to get through, but there are so many kernels of spiritual and intellectual gold in this one. I think it would give many skeptics a new paradigm for understanding Christianity or any religion. It is a great union of science and faith. less

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