Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 19:09:48 EST
Sounds like process theism, not a Christian understanding of creation.
Here's what his website says: *"Dowd proclaims something he calls
"evolution theology" -- the understanding that the 13.7 billion year history
of the universe is the story of an "emergent moreness" he considers God."
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On Jan 14, 2008 6:55 PM, John Walley <john_walley@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Former creationist preaches gospel of evolution Preacher travels country
> urging all to embrace science
>
> *By **Eileen E. Flynn* <eflynn@statesman.com>
> AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
> Saturday, January 12, 2008
>
> The Rev. Michael Dowd gave up a permanent home to travel the country
> spreading his gospel in the hope of reconciling disparate beliefs. But the
> former pastor's gospel may shock many Christians.
>
> Dowd preaches "evolution theology," a view that promotes evolutionary
> science and God as the ultimate reality.
>
> <http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/12/Michael-Dowd-EVOLUTION1.html>
>
>
> The Rev. Michael Dowd travels U.S. urging all to embrace science.
>
> In Dowd's mind, you can have Darwin and the divine.
>
> Dowd is so committed to spreading his message that he offers his book —
> "Thank God for Evolution! How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will
> Transform Your Life and Our World" — as a free download on his Web site.
>
> The presentations that he and his wife give at churches and other venues
> are also free. But DVD and book sales help finance their ministry.
>
> For more than five years, Dowd, 49, and his wife, Connie Barlow, a science
> writer, have traveled the country in a high-top van that they named Angel
> and asked audiences from many backgrounds to consider evolution theology.
>
> Their work has drawn praise from Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
>
> The couple will speak at 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at First
> Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Ave.
>
> "We don't try to show evangelicals or young earth creationists or
> intelligent design people that we're right and they're wrong," Dowd said.
> "Evolution gives me a bigger God, an undeniably real God."
>
> Dowd believes that God's revelations didn't stop in biblical times but
> continued in the form of scientific discovery, a worldview that he thinks is
> important as public schools grapple with how to teach evolution, Americans
> choose a new president, and the world faces environmental threats.
>
> "If somebody believes that Jesus, the cosmic janitor, is going to return
> on a cloud and clean up the mess we made, they're more likely to have a less
> responsible way of thinking about the future and handing on a healthy,
> sustainable world," Dowd said.
>
> Dowd said that booking his talks at Unitarian churches is easier because
> of the denomination's liberal theology but that he wants to spend more time
> this year talking to evangelical Christians who either grudgingly accept
> evolution or aggressively try to dismiss it as incompatible with Scripture.
>
> Dowd said he understands the fear of allowing science to trump faith
> because he was once a biblical literalist who believed that the Earth was
> 6,000 years old
>
> Over the years, though, he said, a Passionist priest led him to find a
> more powerful narrative of God and discover a "God-glorifying,
> Christ-edifying view of evolution."
>
> For more information on Dowd's work, go to www.thankgodforevolution.com.
>
> eflynn@statesman.com; 445-3812
>
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