Karl Giberson
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Dr. Karl Giberson is one of America's leading evangelical scholars specializing in the creation-evolution controversy.[citation needed] He was the founding editor of Science & Theology News, the leading publication in this field until it ceased publication in 2006. He has also been the editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit since 2003.
Giberson has published three books. Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Religion and Science, published in 1993, is the only book on this controversial topic published by the denominational press of the conservative Church of the Nazarene. The book was very controversial and and appeared over the objections of key Nazarene leaders.[citation needed] Since then it has been used widely at various Nazarene and other evangelical colleges to try and counter fundamentalist approaches to origins. Giberson's second book, co-authored with historian Donald Yerxa, was Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story. This book appeared in 2002 and quickly garnered recognition as the most balanced treatment of the creation-evolution in print.[citation needed] America's leading scholar of creationism, Ron Numbers, described it as "accessible, accurate, and even-handed."[citation needed] His third book appeared in late 2006 and was co-authored with Spanish philosopher Mariano Artigas and published by 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.
Giberson has written more than 100 articles for various publications including Discover, Perspectives on Science & Faith, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Zygon, and other journals. He has given invited lectures on science and religion at many venues, including Oxford University, the Etore Majorana Center in Sicily, as well as colleges and universities in the United States. His primary research focus is the history and sociology of the creation-evolution controversy. In 2006 he was invited to speak at the Vatican on "America's Ongoing Hostility to Darwinism."
Giberson has been on the faculty of Eastern Nazarene College Quincy, Massachusetts since 1984, where he teaches mainly in the area of science & religion.
