Perhaps more than any other new paradigm writer, Michael Dowd has achieved a magnificent and well reasoned synthesis of science and religion. Widely diverse audiences that are hungry for his message include everyone from fundamentalists to athiests, from campus freethinkers to university departments of religion, from high school classrooms and homeschooling to local talk radio and NPR.

TGFE presents the history of the universe in which our generation has a cricial role to play. Its revolutionary perspective provides a new lens with which to view our past, present and future. By applying the inspirational language of religion to science and the grounded language of science to religion, a new heaven and earth emerges.

On a personal level, the book accomplishes the much needed synthesis of head and heart. From this reinvented place, our personal struggles, breakdowns, pain, our closed relationships, our choices about how we spend our time, energy and money and the well being of our community, country and world all become rooted in an evolutionary context. Evolutionary wisdom reveals itself in our most intimate relationships through respectful communications, touch and tenderness, playfulness and humor, meaningful songs and rituals and service.

Michael helps us build bridges, provides guidance on the path and restores a sense of hope for the future. When we align ourselves with the inexorable flow of evolution in ever widening circles of compassion, we becomes extensions of God, Goddess, Spirit, or Universal Intelligence and our sense of personal mission and purpose is reestablished in using our intelligence and creativity to contribute our part in an emergent positive future.

What Michael’s story reveals using the latest findings of biology, geology, astrophysics and evolutionary brain science is a tapestry of co-operation and a uniting of more and more people that has been an underlying life trend since the beginning. In human relations, we have come from family clans to tribes to kingdoms, to nations, to global markets, to united nations and to a future possibility of global governance, a biocracy and a symbiotic humanity.

If you are ready to end the back and forth debate between Science and Religion, Michael provides an elegant way through.

Michael Dowd is an evolutionary evangelist who travels the country with his wife, acclaimed science writer Connie Barlow, in their motor home proclaiming the “great news” of a sacred view of cosmic, biological and human evolution. For more on Michael, his books and DVD’s and on Connie’s work and materials, visit: www.thankgodforevolution.com and to sunscribe to Michael’s ezine, Evolutionary Life, send an e-mail to MBDowd@bigplanet.com.