It’s been my experience that some of the meanest, nastiest, most deluded Darwinists come from Christian backgrounds. Included in the list of such Darwinists:

1. Richard Dawkins
2. PZ Myers
3. Ed Brayton
4. Hector Avalos
….
Charles Darwin

Biophysicist George Cornelius Hunter argues that Darwinism has many stealth ties to Christendom, and for sure we see it even in evidence today. It was prophesied that evil and deceit would emerge out of confines of Christian churches (Acts 20:29 for starters), and so it is indeed.

Ironically, many revered Christians came from atheist homes or atheist backgrounds. Lee Strobel, CS Lewis, Francis Collins, etc. Bill Murray was the son of notorious atheist Madalyn Murry O’Hair. He was raised in an Atheist home, was involved in the supreme court case that repealed the pledge of allegiance, but over time, he rejected his mother’s athiesm and became a baptist minister.

For the record, I’m a pragmatist. To quote my favorite Darwinist (former evangelical) Michael Shermer, “What it is, is what it is.” I’m willing to revise my beliefs if I’m wrong. Being an engineer and going through school in the sciences, one gets confronted with one’s fallibility every day — heck, every hour!

But certain things we realize cannot possibly be true, and then we move on. I realize Darwinism cannot possibly be true in it’s most major claims. The Darwinists can’t make their math work. Kimura showed Darwinism is not the driving force in molecular evolution, and it’s apparent if molecular evolution is not governed by Darwinism, we should not expect much else in biology to be. Like Berlinski, one does not need to be a creationist to know Darwinism is drek.

I’m appalled Reverend Michael Dowd is going around preaching the gospel of Darwin supposedly to further the gospel of Christ. Darwin is drek scientifically, philosophically, and theologically.

If this preacher wants to show that science and Christian religion are compatible, what better examples than Einstein’s Heroes: Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell.

He could read the book: Einstein’s Heroes and learn what real scientists are. Darwin wasn’t even a spec compared to Einstein’s Heroes.

Darwin was a pea brain. He couldn’t even do (even after much effort) high school algebra. I can do high school algebra. Darwin was also a charlatan, but that’s another post.

2000 years ago, the Apostle Paul expressed his wishes regarding preachers who preached another gospel:

I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!

In that respect, may reverend Michael Dowd follow the example of Darwinist John Roughgarden.

Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, here is the actual news article: Former creationist preaches gospel of evolution

The Rev. Michael Dowd gave up a permanent home to travel the country spreading his gospel in the hope of reconciling disparate beliefs. But the former pastor’s gospel may shock many Christians.

Dowd preaches “evolution theology,” a view that promotes evolutionary science and God as the ultimate reality.

In Dowd’s mind, you can have Darwin and the divine.

Dowd is so committed to spreading his message that he offers his book — “Thank God for Evolution! How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World” — as a free download on his Web site.

The presentations that he and his wife give at churches and other venues are also free. But DVD and book sales help finance their ministry.

For more than five years, Dowd, 49, and his wife, Connie Barlow, a science writer, have traveled the country in a high-top van that they named Angel and asked audiences from many backgroundsto consider evolution theology.

Their work has drawn praise from Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

The couple will speak at 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Ave.

“We don’t try to show evangelicals or young earth creationists or intelligent design people that we’re right and they’re wrong,” Dowd said. “Evolution gives me a bigger God, an undeniably real God.”

Dowd believes that God’s revelations didn’t stop in biblical times but continued in the form of scientific discovery, a worldview that he thinks is important as public schools grapple with how to teach evolution, Americans choose a new president, and the world faces environmental threats.

“If somebody believes that Jesus, the cosmic janitor, is going to return on a cloud and clean up the mess we made, they’re more likely to have a less responsible way of thinking about the future and handing on a healthy, sustainable world,” Dowd said.

Dowd said that booking his talks at Unitarian churches is easier because of the denomination’s liberal theology but that he wants to spend more time this year talking to evangelical Christians who either grudgingly accept evolution or aggressively try to dismiss it as incompatible with Scripture.

Dowd said he understands the fear of allowing science to trump faith because he was once a biblical literalist who believed that the Earth was 6,000 years old

Over the years, though, he said, a Passionist priest led him to find a more powerful narrative of God and discover a “God-glorifying, Christ-edifying view of evolution.”

For more information on Dowd’s work, go to www.thank

godforevolution.com.

eflynn@statesman.com; 445-3812