{"id":542,"date":"2007-12-08T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/08\/jesus-loves-darwin\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T15:25:08","slug":"jesus-loves-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/jesus-loves-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Loves Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Rev. Michael Dowd is preaching a surprising message: Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God.<\/p>\n<p>For the last five years, the author and former evangelical pastor has lived out of a van with his wife, crisscrossing the nation to deliver the good news.<\/p>\n<p>His latest book, Thank God for Evolution, drew endorsements from five Nobel laureates and dozens of religious leaders. With the battle between science and religion at a fever pitch, it couldn&#8217;t come at a better time. Just last week Texas papers reported that a curriculum director had been fired in October for forwarding information about an evolution lecture to friends and colleagues.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/planetearth\/news\/2007\/12\/dowd_qa\">wired<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Look out, religion people, it could be a trick&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Michael Dowd is preaching a surprising message: Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God. For the last five years, the author and former evangelical pastor has lived out of a van with his wife, crisscrossing the nation to deliver the good news. His latest book, Thank God for Evolution, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/jesus-loves-darwin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus Loves Darwin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}