“Michael Dowd’s book, Thank God for Evolution, performs a crucial service for both religion and science. He shows that religion can embrace the scientific account of our origins as its own sacred story without losing any of its spiritual force. At the same time science has nothing to fear from religion, which properly understood, celebrates rather than challenges the unfolding scientific story of the origin of the universe and humanity. I have nothing but praise for this book and the work that Michael and his wife, Connie Barlow, are doing as wandering preachers of the good news of the potential harmony of science and religion. ”