Thank God for Evolution

[loveiseverywhere]

This book is out today and I'm going to take a look at it later. I've read some reviews that say it only touches on evolution. I'll post my thoughts later after I take a good look at the book.


It's called THANK GOD FOR EVOLUTION and below is a review:

Part science lesson, part motivational speech, and part sermon, this book has it all. A former Young Earth creationist minister, Dowd came to the realization that it is possible to believe both in God and in evolution. To many, this is far from earth-shattering news; to Dowd, it is groundbreaking information he has taken on the road with his wife, acclaimed science writer Connie Barlow. This book is their presentation in print form. It starts with an excellent overview of Darwinian evolution, then goes a bit off track as Dowd uses terms like "Lizard Legacy" and "Monkey Mind" in trying to explain what evolution means to human psychological development; this motivational section is complete with self-help exercises to assist readers in bettering their interpersonal relationships. Next, the book goes into a sermon about how we need to tame our Monkey Minds with religion, or Higher Porpoise, whatever religious tradition we choose to follow. It wraps up well with an ecological call to stop global warming. A well-written work that presents some interesting concepts; recommended for larger libraries. --Jennifer Kuncken, Williamsburg Regional Lib., VA, Library Journal

I, like Francis Collins and Kenneth Miller, am a follower of Christ and yet I also accept evolution as scientific fact. This is because I am not a biblical literalist.

So, if there are those of you who are interested in reading any books on the subject, Kenneth Miller also wrote Finding Darwin's God. It's excellent.

 

[Chesterton]

Next, the book goes into a sermon about how we need to tame our Monkey Minds with religion, or Higher Porpoise, whatever religious tradition we choose to follow.

"My dear family, guess what. Today I found out what my special porpoise is for. Gosh what a great time I had."

 

[Cabal]

This book is out today and I'm going to take a look at it later. I've read some reviews that say it only touches on evolution. I'll post my thoughts later after I take a good look at the book.


It's called THANK GOD FOR EVOLUTION and below is a review:

Part science lesson, part motivational speech, and part sermon, this book has it all. A former Young Earth creationist minister, Dowd came to the realization that it is possible to believe both in God and in evolution. To many, this is far from earth-shattering news; to Dowd, it is groundbreaking information he has taken on the road with his wife, acclaimed science writer Connie Barlow. This book is their presentation in print form. It starts with an excellent overview of Darwinian evolution, then goes a bit off track as Dowd uses terms like "Lizard Legacy" and "Monkey Mind" in trying to explain what evolution means to human psychological development; this motivational section is complete with self-help exercises to assist readers in bettering their interpersonal relationships. Next, the book goes into a sermon about how we need to tame our Monkey Minds with religion, or Higher Porpoise, whatever religious tradition we choose to follow. It wraps up well with an ecological call to stop global warming. A well-written work that presents some interesting concepts; recommended for larger libraries. --Jennifer Kuncken, Williamsburg Regional Lib., VA, Library Journal

I, like Francis Collins and Kenneth Miller, am a follower of Christ and yet I also accept evolution as scientific fact. This is because I am not a biblical literalist.

So, if there are those of you who are interested in reading any books on the subject, Kenneth Miller also wrote Finding Darwin's God. It's excellent.

Hmm, good in principle, I guess, but I suspect those still in the usual YEC population will play the True Christian (tm) card and move on.

 

[loveiseverywhere]

You're probably correct there.

 

[mattman59]

What do you call an honest YEC who finishes a college level biology course?








An evolutionist.

 

[MorkandMindy]

The big question has always been:

what is left of the Bible after archaeology has hit it?

 

[mattman59]

The big question has always been:

what is left of the Bible after archaeology has hit it?

The bible has parts that match up with what we know about archaeology but then other parts that are WILDLY inaccurate. Of course we are talking about the religion of rationalization where they can literally come up with an excuse for anything.

Got cancer? If God heals you he did it because he is so super awesome, if you die then it is just his will and you are in a better place. Same with praying to "get stuff", it happens and you deserved it, doesn't happen and it is still "for the best". The mental gymnastics some people try and do to make parts of the bible sound even remotely sane really makes me lol. The parts about women, slavery, the entirety of "Jewish Law", all of which are totally unacceptable in our modern culture but according to Christians they just need to be "understood in context". As if God telling people to destroy an entire village, kill all but the girls who had "not known a man" and then "keep them for yourselves" somehow really means that the soldiers would treat these little girls like their own daughters...

 

[Hespera]

The bible has parts that match up with what we know about archaeology but then other parts that are WILDLY inaccurate. Of course we are talking about the religion of rationalization where they can literally come up with an excuse for anything.

Got cancer? If God heals you he did it because he is so super awesome, if you die then it is just his will and you are in a better place. Same with praying to "get stuff", it happens and you deserved it, doesn't happen and it is still "for the best". The mental gymnastics some people try and do to make parts of the bible sound even remotely sane really makes me lol. The parts about women, slavery, the entirety of "Jewish Law", all of which are totally unacceptable in our modern culture but according to Christians they just need to be "understood in context". As if God telling people to destroy an entire village, kill all but the girls who had "not known a man" and then "keep them for yourselves" somehow really means that the soldiers would treat these little girls like their own daughters...

Take a little time and consider just what all was involved in the attack, and the capture of those girls, and what happened to them next.

 

[mattman59]

Take a little time and consider just what all was involved in the attack, and the capture of those girls, and what happened to them next.

If you could find something more psycho and revolting than those people saying their mighty god told them to do it and said it was right, I dont want to hear about it.

My favorite is when Xenophobic Christians attack Islam because Mohammad took a 9 year old wife.

 

[Hespera]

My favorite is when Xenophobic Christians attack Islam because Mohammad took a 9 year old wife.

I dunno, that sounds like a good enough reason for me.

 

[mattman59]

I dunno, that sounds like a good enough reason for me.

The hypocrisy of accusing Islam of being so horrible while your religion is actually even worse is what I was pointing out.

 

[Hespera]

The hypocrisy of accusing Islam of being so horrible while your religion is actually even worse is what I was pointing out.

Well aint we quick to go calling hypocrisy. Would you care to identify this awful religion of which you think I am a member?

In the horrible dept, the 9 yr old bit doesnt amount to much, comapred to otehr things done daily in the name of Islam. A few words on the internet are worse, in your mind, than bombing a market? Invading Spain?

 

[Cabal]

Well aint we quick to go calling hypocrisy. Would you care to identify this awful religion of which you think I am a member?

In the horrible dept, the 9 yr old bit doesnt amount to much, comapred to otehr things done daily in the name of Islam. A few words on the internet are worse, in your mind, than bombing a market? Invading Spain?

"your religion" = xenophobic Christians, referred to in his penultimate post

 

[mattman59]

Well aint we quick to go calling hypocrisy. Would you care to identify this awful religion of which you think I am a member?

In the horrible dept, the 9 yr old bit doesnt amount to much, comapred to otehr things done daily in the name of Islam. A few words on the internet are worse, in your mind, than bombing a market? Invading Spain?

I was not talking about you unless you happen to be someone who thinks Islam will "take over" in both secular Europe and Christian American within the next 50-100 years.

 

[mattman59]

"your religion" = xenophobic Christians, referred to in his penultimate post

Irish logic FTW.

 

[Hespera]

I was not talking about you unless you happen to be someone who thinks Islam will "take over" in both secular Europe and Christian American within the next 50-100 years.

you spoke to me so its almost like you were including me in "you". And that was in fact mighty quick on the hypocrisy draw.

As for the danger from Islam, you can project the trend lines and see what you see. I dont have a crystal ball but only a plain d..... fool would not pay attention and think about what they want to have happen.

 

[mattman59]

you spoke to me so its almost like you were including me in "you". And that was in fact mighty quick on the hypocrisy draw.

As for the danger from Islam, you can project the trend lines and see what you see. I dont have a crystal ball but only a plain d..... fool would not pay attention and think about what they want to have happen.

Do you realize close to HALF of our electorate was (and some still are) convinced that our President is a Muslim? The sheer improbability that either the majority Christian US or the mostly secular European nations will suddenly "see the light of Allah" seems obvious to me. Granted I live in the south where skin color played a bigger role and politics this last go round.

 

[Hespera]

Do you realize close to HALF of our electorate was (and some still are) convinced that our President is a Muslim? The sheer improbability that either the majority Christian US or the mostly secular European nations will suddenly "see the light of Allah" seems obvious to me. Granted I live in the south where skin color played a bigger role and politics this last go round.

Do you realize that your post is totally irrelevant to what I said?

Your bit about "suddenly see the light of allah" is comparable in strawman nonsense to the basic creo bit about evolution saying that life suddenly randomly went poof from a mud puddle.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Take a little time and consider just what all was involved in the attack, and the capture of those girls, and what happened to them next.

My favorite is when Xenophobic Christians attack Islam because Mohammad took a 9 year old wife.

I dunno, that sounds like a good enough reason for me.

The hypocrisy of accusing Islam of being so horrible while your religion is actually even worse is what I was pointing out.

Well ain't we quick to go calling hypocrisy. Would you care to identify this awful religion of which you think I am a member?

In the horrible dept, the 9 yr old bit doesn't amount to much, compared to other things done daily in the name of Islam. A few words on the internet are worse, in your mind, than bombing a market? Invading Spain?

The main reason I post in CF is to clear up the ambiguous nature of some of my language

Post 11 I'm fairly sure be expressed as:

'The hypocrisy of accusing Islam of being so horrible while a person's own (Judeo-Christian) religion is actually even worse is what I was pointing out.'

Re reading it although he quotes Hespera the comment that follows must be a non-sequitur because your post clearly shows a Buddhist symbol,

the first time I read it however it has to be said, I did take the offensive meaning...

 

[MorkandMindy]

To get back the the OP:

'Thank God for Evolution' is a phrase deliberately meant to provoke, after all can you expect a book to sell when it's title is just boring?


The reality as I'm sure most people are aware, is Archaeology which provides the factual basis contradicting Gen 1, 2 and 8 as well as many other parts of the Bible, and evolution providing a theoretical basis, has been an unmitigated disaster for Christianity.