Michael Dowd

Person · Open Library

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1948-03-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

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Raised a Roman Catholic, Dowd describes himself as having been ‘born again’ while serving in the United States Army in Germany in 1979, and for the next three years living within a fundamentalist culture that was strongly opposed to evolution. Thereafter he came under a more eclectic range of religious influences (including a friendship with a “Buddhist-Christian” former Trappist monk), that opened him up to first intellectual, and then spiritual, acceptance of evolution. <a href="https://www.la

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 85,638x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,865x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,963x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,032x

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Quotes

• “I dedicate this book to the glory of God.”
• “I promise that this book will provide... an experience of science, and evolution specifically, that will fire your imagination, touch your heart, and lead you to a place of deep gratitude, awe, and reverence.”
• “You will... find here effective ways to talk about evolution to any friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors who are biblical literalists or young earth creationists.”
• “To agnostics, humanists, atheists, and freethinkers... you will find nothing here that you cannot wholeheartedly embrace as... rationally sound, mainstream scientific understanding of the Universe. ...[T]he vision of "evolutionary spirituality" presented here will benefit you and your loved ones without your needing to believe in anything otherworldly.”
• “Discussing Thank God for Evolution! with those you care about will open new doors of possibility... and provide common ground where none existed before. This book is a perfect gift, not to convert others to your way of thinking but to converse... deeply and heartfully about those things that matter most.”
• “I met Connie Barlow at a lecture... Connie was the author of four books, and two of them had "evolution" in their titles... She, too, was a long-time "epic of evolution" enthusiast. ...[H]er passion for sharing a sacred understanding of cosmic history was no less than mine. Seven months later I asked Connie to marry me.”

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