Thegreatstory

Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow (born 1952) better known online as thegreatstory, are American authors and advocates for acceptance of evolution.
==Personal life==
As of September 2020, Michael and Connie live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States. Michael is a cancer survivor and a grandfather.
Connie, originally from Detroit, Michigan United States, is an advocate for the "assisted migration" of native trees due to climate change. She is the founder of , a controversial citizen led project that accesses horticulturally produced seeds and cuttings for their "northward plantings" of an endangered tree.
==Theology==
Michael's ministry focuses on "evolution's prophetic possibilities for a hopeful future" beyond popular doomsday scenarios.
Michael was raised as a Roman Catholic, but became "a born again Christian" as a teenager, while serving in the US Army in Berlin, Germany. This is when he became a creationist. He went on to graduate from , where most of the faculty accepted evolution, with a B.A. in Biblical Studies and Philosophy. This contributed to his acceptance of evolution. Michael earned a Master of Divinity degree from .
Michael has delivered two TEDx talks, the first in 2012, and the second in 2014.
==Books==
===Michael===
Michael is the author of the 1991 book "EarthSpirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity", published by Twenty-Third Publications.
Michael is the author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. In July 2008, published a revised second edition. It was published as a paperback in May 2009, by .
The book has been endorsed by six Nobel-prize winning scientists.
===Connie===
During the 1990s, Connie was a freelance science writer and science editor. She has written four books, all of which explore topics within the evolutionary and ecological sciences:
*From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences (MIT Press) – published July 8, 1992
*Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life (MIT Press) – August 4, 1995
*Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science (Copernicus Books) – September 26, 1997
*The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms – published March 21, 2002.
In the 1990s, Barlow contributed articles to . In 2014, she launched "Climate, Trees, and Legacy," a video blog series promoting forestry-climate activism.
Connie's work was twice featured as the cover story of the Unitarian Universalist national magazine, , (2006 and 1997).
==Post-Doom==
Michael and Connie's YouTube channel hosts their seventy-five "Post-Doom" conversations, which discuss acceptance of economic and ecological “doom,” including the extinction of humanity.
==References==
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