Karl Giberson

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name = Karl Giberson


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birth_date = May 13, 1957
birth_place = Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
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field = Physics, Theology
work_institutions = Eastern Nazarene College, Gordon College
alma_mater = Eastern Nazarene College, Rice University
doctoral_advisor = Barry Dunning
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religion = Christian
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Karl W. Giberson is a physicist and scholar specializing in the creation-evolution debate (see Creation-evolution controversy). He has been on the faculty of Eastern Nazarene College since 1984.

He is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), the Director of the Forum on Faith & Science at Gordon College in Massachusetts, and currently the co-director for the Venice Summer School on Science and Religion, which runs through 2010. He has lectured on science and religion at Oxford University, the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Sicily, and various colleges and universities in the United States. In 2006, he was invited to speak at the Vatican on "America's Ongoing Hostility to Darwinism" and at the Harvard Club of New York in 2008.

Education

Giberson holds two Bachelor's degrees from Eastern Nazarene College, and both a Master's degree and PhD from Rice University.

Published works

Giberson was the founding editor of "Science & Theology News" and was the editor-in-chief of "Science & Spirit" from 2003-2007 for the John Templeton Foundation (JTF). [ [http://www.asa3.org/asa/newsletter/JULAUG01.htm American Scientific Affiliation newsletter, Jul/Aug 2001, Vol. 43 No. 4] ]

Giberson has also written numerous articles for various print and online publications, including "Discover", "Perspectives on Science & Faith", [ [http://www.asa3.org/asa/topics/Education/index.html American Scientific Affiliation Topics: Education] ] "Books & Culture" and "Christianity Today", [ [http://www.christianitytoday.com/search/?query=giberson Books and Culture articles by Karl Giberson] ] "Zygon", and Salon.com. [ [salon.com] ]

His essay "What's wrong with science as religion?" is being used as required reading in a course taught by John Haught at St. John's University.

Books

His first book, "Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science", published in 1993 by the Church of the Nazarene and Beacon Hill Press [Karl Giberson, "Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science", Beacon Hill Press, 1993 ISBN 0834115042] has, despite controversy, been used at various Nazarene and other evangelical colleges to counter Christian Fundamentalist approaches to "origins".

Giberson's second book, co-authored with historian Donald A. Yerxa, was "Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story", [Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa, "Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story", Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002 ISBN 0742507645] which appeared in 2002 and garnered recognition as one of the most balanced treatments of the creation-evolution controversy in print. America's leading scholar of creationism, Ronald Numbers, described it as "accessible, accurate, and even-handed." [ [http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/Reviews.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742507645 Reviews for Species of Origins] ] It is used as a textbook and has been translated into Polish for an inclusion in a contemporary philosophy series. [ [http://wydawnictwomegas.pl/images/uploaded/books/20.jpg] ]

Giberson's third book appeared in late 2006, co-authored with Spanish philosopher Mariano Artigas and published by Oxford University Press. [Giberson is, in fact, the first scholar associated with the Church of the Nazarene to publish with the Oxford University Press.] Titled "The Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion", the book examines the purported "abuse of science" in the service of secularism by the six most influential scientists of this generation: Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, and Stephen Hawking. [ Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas, "The Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientist Versus God and Religion", Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN 0195310721]

His most recent book is "Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution", which HarperOne released in June, 2008.

He is currently under contract with co-author Randall Stephens for "The Anointed: American Evangelical Experts", with Harvard University Press, [ [http://www.enc.edu/history/stephensCV.html Randall Stephens CV] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.science-spirit.org/archive_03-02.html Science & Spirit ]
* [http://www.karlgiberson.com Karl Giberson]