“Few subjects today arouse more passion than the culture war between traditional religion and evolutionary science. Dowd’s timely book offers a refreshing third way and introduces us to a promising new field emerging on the edges of contemporary culture—evolutionary spirituality. Integrating breakthrough ideas from evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary biology, Dowd makes a compelling case for why the spiritual and religious impulse is not erased but profoundly enriched by our ever-expanding knowledge of self, nature, and cosmos. With the enthusiasm of an evangelical and the open-mindedness of a scientist, he offers the reader a smorgasbord of fascinating new ideas, and begins a discussion about the theological future of Christianity that is long overdue. ”