Thank God for Evolution.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)

Thank God for Evolution

Michael Dowd, read by the author. Penguin Audio, abridged, eight CDs, 9 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-314388-8

Since 2002, ordained United Church of Christ minister Dowd and his wife, science writer Connie Barlow, have traveled the country celebrating evolution as a grand epic story with a host of psychological and moral implications for shaping contemporary life. As narrator, Dowd projects an earnest next-door neighbor teaching style that earns a measure of patience and forgiveness when he undertakes divergent metaphors and analogies that may leave listeners scratching …