Purpose: “I wrote Saving Darwin to build a bit of a bridge between two cultures at odds with each other: the scientific community and American evangelicalism. I have lived in both cultures and am dismayed at how far apart they are. In this climate of misunderstanding the ‘naturalism’ of science looks anti-religious and the anti-evolutionism of evangelicalism looks uninformed. I hope to illuminate the tension that divide these two communities and to contribute to improved communications.” - Karl Giberson
Intelligent design, creationism, and evolution have always been hot topics for debate in America. Creationism and intelligent design are usually seen as the province of religious people, while evolution belongs to scientists.
But what about committed Christians who find something lacking in the idea of creationism or intelligent design? can you still be a Christian and support the idea of evolution? Karl Giberson believes you can. Raised a fundamentalist who firmly believed in creationism, Giberson abandoned his creationist beliefs while working on his Ph.D., but not his belief in Christianity. This book explores the history of the controversy that swirls around evolution and shows why - and how - it is possible to believe in God and evolution at the same time.
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Francis S. Collins
HarperOne
$24.95
June 2008
“Christianity, as its name suggests, is primarily about Christ. To be sure, different ideas about Christ exist across the spectrum of Christian belief. But these beliefs, rather than creationist assertions, are the heart and soul of Christianity. And these beliefs are not threatened by Darwin’s dangerous idea.” - Karl Giberson, in an interview with HarperOne
