Karl Giberson
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| Karl Giberson | |
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| Residence |  USA |
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| Nationality |  Canadian |
| Fields | Physics, Theology |
| Institutions | Eastern Nazarene College |
| Religious stance | Christian |
Karl W. Giberson is a physicist and scholar specializing in the creation-evolution debate (see Creation-evolution controversy). He was the founding editor of Science & Theology News until 2006 and was the editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit from 2003 to 2007 for the John Templeton Foundation (JTF).[1] He has been on the faculty of Eastern Nazarene College since 1984 and is the Director of the Forum on Faith & Science at Gordon College in Massachusetts.
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[edit] Education
Giberson holds two Bachelor's degrees from Eastern Nazarene College, and both a Master's degree and PhD from Rice University.
[edit] Published works
Giberson has published three books. Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science, published in 1993 by the Church of the Nazarene and Beacon Hill Press[2] 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,[3] 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."[4] Giberson's third book appeared in late 2006, co-authored with Spanish philosopher Mariano Artigas and published by Oxford University Press.[5] 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.[6] He is currently under contract with co-author Randall Stephens for The Anointed: American Evangelical Experts, with Harvard University Press,[7] and is working on another book, titled Saving Darwin, which will be published in 2008.[8]
Giberson has also written over 100 articles for various publications, including Discover, Perspectives on Science & Faith,[9] Books & Culture and Christianity Today,[10] Zygon, and other journals. He has been invited to lecture on science and religion at Oxford University, the Etore Majorana Center 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."
[edit] References
- ^ American Scientific Affiliation newsletter, Jul/Aug 2001, Vol. 43 No. 4
- ^ Karl Giberson, Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science, Beacon Hill Press, 1993 ISBN 0834115042
- ^ Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002 ISBN 0742507645
- ^ Reviews for Species of Origins
- ^ Giberson is, in fact, the first scholar associated with the Church of the Nazarene to publish with the Oxford University Press.
- ^ Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas, The Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientist Versus God and Religion, Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN 0195310721
- ^ Randall Stephens CV
- ^ "Can God Love Darwin, Too?" By Sharon Begley Newsweek Sept. 17, 2007 issue
- ^ American Scientific Affiliation Topics: Education
- ^ Books and Culture articles by Karl Giberson
