Home / Authors / Michael Dowd Biography

Michael Dowd

Michael Dowd Biography

Author

Michael Dowd is an American author born in 1958. He is known for his profound insights into religion, science, and environmental protection. Dowd's work often combines scientific evidence with religious faith, exploring humanity's place in the universe.

Michael Dowd is an American author born in 1958. He is known for his profound insights into religion, science, and environmental protection. Dowd's work often combines scientific evidence with religious faith, exploring humanity's place in the universe.

Related Quotes

“I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.”

World Body Hands Universe Missing Design Evolution Intelligent Debate Hands Of God Intelligent Design

Author:Michael Dowd

“Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.”

World Way Bigs Humanity Failing Modern Evidence Scripture Theology Betray Ecology Honorable Genesis Modern Day

Author:Michael Dowd

“No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?”

Mind Firsts Children Century Our Children Teeth Sane Theologian Dentist

Author:Michael Dowd

“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.”

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“Facts are God’s native tongue.”

Facts Tongue Native

Book:Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.”

Ifs Mean Universe Understanding Creation Mislead Outdated

Author:Michael Dowd

“Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.”

People Ifs Persons Important Reality Used Culture Voice Religious Divine Ultimate Mere Atheist Used To Be All Time Unbelievers Personification Ultimate Reality

Author:Michael Dowd

“God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!”

Ifs Persons Reality Missing Sacred Significant Dimensions Personification

Author:Michael Dowd

“Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.”

Humans Self Earth Water Community Human Beings Existence Air Members Environmental Soil

Author:Michael Dowd

About the Author

Born: 1958
Known for: Author
Quotes: 9

Related Topics

Ifs Humanity Missing Personification Persons Reality Universe World Active Air

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our WorldRelated source material

Similar Authors

William A. DembskiBrowse related quotes
Athenagoras I of ConstantinopleBrowse related quotes
Irven DeVoreBrowse related quotes
John PolkinghorneBrowse related quotes
David HillisBrowse related quotes
Richard DawkinsBrowse related quotes
Thomas BerryBrowse related quotes
John MarburgerBrowse related quotes
E. O. WilsonBrowse related quotes
Neil deGrasse TysonBrowse related quotes