“Michael Dowd is a passionate, forceful, intelligent and irenic voice in the all-too-often strident exchanges between creationists and evolutionists. His vision of evolution as 'divine creativity' of which we are always both products and agents has room for—indeed requires—science and faith. Science provides the facts, while faith is needed to understand their meaning. And it is the meaning of evolution that Dowd most wants to convey, as for example in his call for 'evolutionary integrity,' i.e. living out (realizing) the ethical implications of evolution. I expect it is Dowd’s own commitment to such integrity in his writing that accounts for the fact that even when I encountered assumptions or conclusions I did not share, I was not inclined to react but instead was challenged to respond by creatively evolving my own thinking and formulating. That made Thank God for Evolution! a very good read. ”