Michael Dowd Quotes

• 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.

  Michael Dowd

  Air, Self, Water

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• 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.

  Michael Dowd

  Humanity, World, Way

  "Ecology Is the New Theology" by Michael Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• 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!

  Michael Dowd

  Reality, Missing, Sacred

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• 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the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.

  Michael Dowd

  Mean, Understanding, Creation

  "Mental Off-Roading Radio With Doug Pagitt And Michael Dowd". Interview with Doug Pagitt, John Musick, apprising.org. November 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Michael Dowd

  Religious, Atheist, Reality

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• Facts are God’s native tongue.

  Michael Dowd

  Tongue, Facts, Native

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.88, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• 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?

  Michael Dowd

  Children, Mind, Teeth

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• 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.

  Michael Dowd

  Intelligent, Hands, Design

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