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100 1 $aDowd, Michael.
245 10 $aThank God for evolution :$bhow the marriage of science and religion will transform your life and our world /$cMichael Dowd.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPlume,$c[2009]
264 4 $c©2007
300 $axxvii, 413 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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500 $a"A Plume book."
500 $a"Previously published in a Viking edition. First Plume printing, May 2009"--Title page verso.
500 $aPreviously published: 2007.
500 $aVarious printings.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Author's promises -- Prologue: Personal journey -- Marriage of science and religion -- Itinerant evolutionary Evangelism -- Introduction -- From "Adam and Eve" to us-and beyond -- Science and religion spurring each other to greatness -- In context -- Overview -- Part 1: Holy Trajectory Of Evolution -- 1: Our big picture understanding of reality -- Stories within stories -- What is the great story? -- From shape-shifting to unchanging scripture -- Meaning making -- 2: Evolution is not meaningless blind chance -- Interpreting out immense journey -- Mythopoeic drive -- Time's arrow, time's cycle -- Role of strife -- Role of cooperation -- Role of initiative -- 3: Evolution and the revival of the human spirit -- Universe can be trusted -- You are part of the universe -- Accept what is and be in integrity -- Grow in evolutionary integrity -- Trusting the universe means welcoming challenges -- Part 2: Reality Is Speaking -- 4: Private and public revelation -- Beyond belief -- Birth and maturation of public revelation -- Flat-earth faith versus evolutionary faith -- Toward an evolutionary Christianity -- Facts are God's native tongue -- Religious knowers -- 5: Nested emergent nature of divine creativity -- Thank God for the Hubble Telescope! -- We are made of stardust -- Gifts of death -- Litany: the gifts of death -- 6: Words create worlds -- Experiencing God versus thinking about God -- Split between religion and science -- From clockwork "it" to creative "thou" -- Day and night language -- 7: What do we mean by the word "God"? -- No less than a holy name for the whole -- Prayer in a nestedly creative cosmos -- Personal, undeniable God -- God or the universe: what's in a name? -- Creatheism -- Role of humanity in an evolving universe -- Being "faithful to God" -- Part 3: Gospel According To Evolution -- 8: Growing an evolutionary faith -- Genesis in context -- Don't throw out the apple -- 9: Realizing "The Fall" and "Original sin" -- Lessons from evolutionary brain science -- Lessons from evolutionary psychology -- Resurrecting "the fall" -- Your brain's creation story -- Reclaiming "original sin."
505 0 $a10: Realizing "personal salvation" -- Challenges of our lizard legacy -- Furry li'l mammal to the rescue -- Thank God for our higher porpoise! -- Discerning your calling exercise -- Salvation through evolutionary integrity -- DNA of deep integrity -- Christ-like evolutionary integrity -- Realizing "saving faith" -- Realizing "the Gospel" -- Part 4: Evolutionary Spirituality -- 11: Evolutionary integrity practices -- Evolutionary integrity practices -- Taming out monkey mind -- Taming our lizard legacy -- Growing in trust: nurturing humility and faith -- Realizing "love your enemies" -- Growing in authenticity: realizing "remove the plank" -- Growing in compassion / responsibility: realizing "judge not" -- Growing in gratitude: realizing "love God and your neighbor" -- 12: Evolving our most intimate relationships -- Touch and tenderness -- Respectful communication -- Playfulness and humor -- Meaningful songs and rituals -- Synergy and service -- 13: Transformed by the renewal of your mind -- Deep integrity affirmations -- Imagination matters! Upgrading your mental software -- Part 5: God-Glorifying Future -- 14: Collective sin and salvation -- Wrongdoing in a nestedly emergent universe -- Collective sin in an age of information -- Confronting institutional sin -- 15: Wisdom of life's collective intelligence -- On earth as it is in heaven -- Collective deep integrity -- Conservation and creative emergence -- Co-intelligent social technologies -- Core commons -- Cultivating discernment within the whole -- Co-creating our evolutionary spiritualities -- 16: Knowing the past reveals our way forward -- Cosmic century timeline -- Aligning self-interest with the well-being of the whole -- Who and what are we, really? And why are we here? -- Our sense of self and our role in the body of life -- Evolutionary revivals -- 17: Beyond sustainability: an inspiring vision -- Major challenges in the next 250 years -- Wild cards -- Long-term and short-term positive trends -- Likely good news in the next 250 years -- 18: Our evolving understanding of "God's will" -- Responding to critics who reject religion because of scripture -- Transcending biblical values and scriptural morality -- Realizing "holy scripture" and "divine revelation" -- Public revelation: "the ever-renewing testament" -- Realizing Godly morality and ethics -- Wider circles of care, compassion, and commitment -- Realizing "Jesus as God's way, truth, and life" -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Testimonial -- Vision -- Appendix A: Good and bad reasons for believing / Richard Dawkins -- Appendix B: Realizing the miraculous -- Miracles through the ages -- Realizing "the virgin birth" -- Realizing "Christ's resurrection and ascension into heaven." -- Invitation -- Acknowledgments -- Resources -- Online resources -- Who's who and source of quotations -- Index.
520 $aFrom the Publisher: Finally, the war between science and religion is over. The winner? All of us. With supporters from an incredibly wide spectrum of backgrounds and beliefs, including five Nobel laureates, Thank God for Evolution! builds bridges, provides guidance, and restores realistic hope for humanity and the body of life as a whole. A movement has been growing over the past few decades that takes our common creation story-the epic of cosmic, biological, and human evolution revealed by science-as the basis for a meaningful view of our place in the universe. Reverend Michael Dowd, America's evolutionary evangelist, is at the forefront of this movement. This well informed, thoroughly researched, and inspired book proclaims a gospel billions of years old. Thank God for Evolution! presents in a lively and accessible manner the reasons why it is now possible to view evolution as a divine process; how current science shows that evolution is not meaningless blind chance; practical methods for using evolutionary insights to achieve greater personal fulfillment and thriving relationships; and how aligning with evolutionary trends can guide activists and others hoping to make our world a better place. As a Christian minister, Dowd especially addresses the concerns that Christians have about evolution, but this book contains insights that will appeal to people of all faiths and of no faith. Fun and uplifting, Thank God for Evolution! goes beyond the current debate to offer up a whole new way of thinking about science, religion, and the meaning and purpose of our lives.
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