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Karl Giberson is a science-and-religion scholar and active participant in America’s creation/evolution controversy. 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. 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. Also under contract is a book on theistic evolution co-authored with Francis Collins for InterVarsity Press, and a biography of John Polkinghorne, with Dean Nelson, for Lion-Hudson press.

Worlds Apart is the only book on the controversial topic of origins published by Nazarene Publishing House; it appeared despite the objections of key leaders in the Church of the Nazarene.

Since then it has been used widely at Gordon College and other colleges to promote a balanced discussion of origins. Species of Origins appeared in 2002 and quickly garnered recognition as the most balanced treatment of the creation-evolution controversy available. America's leading scholar of creationism, Ron Numbers, described it as "accessible, accurate, and even-handed." It has been widely used at a textbook at several schools, including Messiah College and Wheaton College. Oracles of Science, published by Oxford University Press, examines the "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. Saving Darwin has been widely and favorably reviewed and was recognized by the Washington Post as one of the “best books of 2008.” It is also in use as a textbook at several schools including Xavier University. The book has strong endorsements from Francis Collins, John Polkinghorne, Ed Larson, Owen Gingerich and others. It was discussed in The New Republic, Newsweek, Salon.com, Edge.org and other venues.   

Giberson has written for various publications including Salon.com, Discover, Weekly Standard, Quarterly Review of Biology, Perspectives on Science & Faith, The Edge.org, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Zygon, Christian History, 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, MIT’s Whitehead Institute, the Thomas More Institute in London, 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."

In 2008 Giberson was asked by Francis Collins to be the vice-president of his new BioLogos Foundation. (www.Biologos.org). BioLogos is a major new initiative aimed at helping Christians 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.