Just reading "On the Origin of Stories. Evolution, Cognition and Fiction" by Brian Boyd, I would like to reflect about our human propensity to present facts in the form of narratives. In a sense, that seems to be a very basic universal, with those of us religious just extending the stories into the supernatural realms of mythology. For example, Richard Dawkins offered a retelling of the evolutionary process as "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution", quite obviously adopting religious terminology. From the very beginnings of scientific biology, scientists began to marvel at the "glory in plants".

Mercifully, the Great Story of Evolution may not only be "told" in scripture, but e.g. in arts and movies, too. To start with a time-tested classic you might haven't seen before, enjoy Carl Sagan's "Cosmos":

Some of you might already have read about Michael Dowd, a Protestant preacher endorsing Evolutionary Theism. Here is the well-done add to his successful book "Thank God for Evolution":

The Behavioral Biologists at Tübingen University wanted to clarify to a wider public that evolutionary fitness is not (just) about "survival", but about intergenerational reproduction as a "Struggle for Love". So, they devised an original piece of "edutainment" - Darwin rocks!

I might finish this post by "The Tree of Life" animation narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

This one is also available at YouTube in music-only editions.

Let's face it: From a purely scientific perspective, we could sneer about people "distorting" the vastly complex reality of evolutionary processes into rather short "stories". But as human beings (evolved as we are) we don't seem to have alternatives when approaching this very reality. Thus, I would dare say: Let uns enjoy it, listening and watching to the Story of Life unfolding...