Religion

Ordained Christian preacher presents evolution as theology, not theory

Reverend Michael Dowd, author of the bold new book, “Thank God for Evolution” (Viking/On-Sale Date: June 19, 2008/978-0-670-02045-4/$24.95), is bringing his cosmic gospel to the Milwaukee area in October as part of a month-long tour of Wisconsin.

Reverend Dowd will preach and teach what he calls “the gospel of evolution” at St. Leonard Congregation, First Unitarian Society, Schlitz Audubon Nature Center and Casa Romero Center.

Dowd, an ordained Christian minister, and his wife Connie Barlow, an acclaimed science writer, are packing pews and leaving audiences across America awestruck with their programs that present evolution as theology, not theory, and science as divine revelation.

Since 2002 the couple have lived out of a van, permanently traveling the continent, teaching and preaching the “Gospel of Evolution” -- a message that has earned them the moniker: America's Evolutionary Evangelists.

Grounded in mainstream science and preached with Pentecostal fervor, the former anti-evolution fundamentalist turned evolutionary missionary shares a “God’s eye view” of everything from microbiology to supernovas.

His provocative program is inspiring evolutionary epiphanies among believers and non-believers alike, and liberating literalists left, right, and center.