Michael Dowd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
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
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
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.
-- Michael Dowd

#Journey #Epic #Confusion
Facts are Godâ€™s native tongue.
-- Michael Dowd

#Facts #Tongue #Native
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
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
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the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.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
Facts are God’s native tongue.
-- Michael Dowd

#Tongue #Facts #Native

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