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Thank God for Evolution

In “Thank God for Evolution”, author Michael Dowd adopts a worldview of “Evolutionary Christianity” and articulates how the facts of science can be integrated with and enrich Christianity through accessible explanations of the origins of the universe, development of the human brain and different types of thought, and by distinguishing between the different languages used in science and religion. Not only that, but the explanations are accessible to people of any or no faith.

Does a review of this type of book fit in with the theme of this blog site? I think so, and I’m sure Dowd would too. If we come to appreciate an evolutionary perspective of the world and can further understand how intricately connected and rooted in one another we are, we can quite easily see that we are required to care deeply for creation and nature, not simply because we are stewards of it, but because we are part of it, we depend on it, and everything that has happened so far in the history of the universe has been leading up to this point.

The understanding of evolution presented isn’t the scary strife, death and meaningless chance perspective that it’s sometimes made out to be. Evolution has direction, meaning, and breeds creativity and cooperation.

Probably the most helpful thing expressed in this book is something I’ve thought about a lot while living in my scientific and religious circles but hadn’t fully articulated – what Dowd calls “day language” or “public revelation”, and “night language” or “private revelation”.

Today we are blessed by the fruits of the scientific method and ways of questioning and developing theories – luxuries and knowledge that were completely inaccessible to everyone from Adam to Moses to David to John, and all those living in pre-Bubonic plague, pre-Renaissance and flat-earth cosmology times. Today we have the capacity and knowledge to understand the difference between the “day language” of science and the “night language” of stories and metaphors.

In no way does Dowd intend to dismiss the importance of “night language” used in the Bible and other ancient texts, because there’s something to be said for symbols and language that provide meaning, comfort and a way to personally relate to creation, nature and God. Instead, Dowd makes a clear distinction between public revelation of knowledge through science and reason, and private revelation of meaning and metaphors. A metaphor doesn’t tell us what happened – the facts do. A story tells one version of what happened, and a metaphor gives meaning and hope. We just have to stop getting facts, stories and metaphors mixed up.

We can continue to learn about ourselves, the universe and God by looking at what God has revealed to us through the Bible and particularly through his personification in Jesus, but also through science and other disciplines since the writing of the New Testament. After all, why would God stop talking to us at the end of the book of Revelation? He is still speaking to us, and we need to be better listeners.

This post was written by Rebecca Ellis, alumnus of The King’s University College currently attending graduate school in Australia.

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Posted: February 9th, 2010 under Book Review, Ellis, King's Alumni.
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