Short Bio

Karl Giberson is the president of the BioLogos Foundation, director of Gordon College’s Forum on Faith and Science, codirector of the Venice Summer School for Science and Religion, a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, and the author of four books, including his latest Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution.

Medium Bio

Karl Giberson is an internationally known scholar of science and religion, and one of America’s leading participants in the creation-evolution controversy. His fourth and most recent book is Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. In addition to books, Giberson has written for various publications, including Salon, Discover, Christianity Today, and other journals. Giberson recently became president of the new BioLogos Foundation, a major new initiative aimed at helping evangelicals integrate their faith with contemporary science. In addition, Giberson is also the director of the Forum on Faith and Science at Gordon College, codirector of the Venice Summer School on Science & Religion, and a member of faculty of Eastern Nazarene College, where he teaches interdisciplinary honors seminars and the history of science.

Long Bio

Karl Giberson is an internationally known scholar of science-and-religion and one of America’s leading participants in the creation/evolution controversy. He has published over a hundred articles, reviews, and essays, both technical and popular, and written four books: Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Science and Religion (1993), Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story (2002, with ENC historian Don Yerxa), Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion (2007, with Spanish physicist, philosopher, and priest, the late Mariano Artigas), and Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian an Believe in Evolution (2008). His fifth book, The Anointed: America’s Evangelical Experts (with ENC historian Randall Stephens) is currently under contract with Harvard University Press.

Giberson has written for various publications including Salon.com, 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, the Harvard Club in New York, as well as colleges and universities in the United States. His primary research  focus is the history and sociology of the creation-evolution controversy and in 2006 he lectured at the Vatican on "America's Ongoing Hostility to Darwinism."

Giberson recently became president of the new BioLogos Foundation. BioLogos is a major new initiative aimed at helping evangelicals integrate their faith with contemporary science. In addition to being the Director of the Forum on Faith and Science at Gordon College, Giberson has been on the faculty of Eastern Nazarene College since 1984, where he teaches interdisciplinary honors seminars and the history of science. He is also co-director of the Venice Summer School on Science & Religion. He was the founding editor of Science & Theology News, the leading publication in the field until it ceased publication in 2006, and editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit magazine from 2003-2006.

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