No otherworldly, unnatural paradise can compare with the utterly <small>REAL</small> heaven I now experience... every moment of every day, free of re… - Michael Dowd

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No otherworldly, unnatural paradise can compare with the utterly <small>REAL</small> heaven I now experience... every moment of every day, free of resentment, guilt, and unfinished business. ...By genuinely appreciating my instincts—thanks to the evolutionary world-view—and creating... structures of support, I now, by grace, experience an ease and freedom I've never known before regarding old habits, patterns, and temptations.

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(born November 19, 1958) is an American progressive Christian minister, author, and eco-theologian known as an advocate of , religious naturalism, sustainability, climate activism, and the epic of evolution.

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I wrote Thank God for Evolution! mostly to help religious believers from different traditions move toward an evidential worldview without having to abandon their tradition and join the atheist/humanist camp to do so. ...Few things are more important... than for... of religious believers... to embrace a science-based understanding of the world. ...Trying to understand reality without an evolutionary worldview is like trying to understand infection without microscopes or the structure of the universe without telescopes. It's... impossible.

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Evolutionary versions of each religion... are emerging. ...[A]dherents of each religion have discovered ...Religious insights and perspectives freed from the narrowness of their time and place of origin are more comprehensive and grounded in measurable reality ...Evolution does not diminish religion; it expands its meaning and value globally.

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