Karl Giberson is an internationally known science-and-religion scholar, speaker, and writer. He has lectured at the Vatican, Oxford University, London’s Thomas Moore Institute, the Ettore Majorana center in Sicily, the Venice Institute of Arts and Letters, the University of Navarre in Spain and at many American venues, including MIT, Brigham Young, Xavier, Stonehill, Wheaton, Gordon, the Harvard Club of New York and others.
His books have been translated into Spanish, Polish, and Italian and he has been featured in magazines from Spain and Brazil, as well as many American publications, including Salon.com, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Phoenix. He has appeared on the Milton Rosenberg show and other radio programs, and been featured in the NY Times “bloggingheads” video series with Robert Wright as well as WBZ’s “Higher Ground” program.
He has published more than 150 articles, reviews, and essays, both technical and popular, in outlets that include USA Today, LA Times, Salon.com, Discover, Weekly Standard, Quarterly Review of Biology, Perspectives on Science & Faith, The Edge.org, and Books & Culture. He has written or co-authored 7 books, and contributed to many edited volumes. His books are:
Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Science and Religion (1993, Beacon Hill); Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story (2002, Rowman & Littlefield, with historian Don Yerxa); Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion (2007, Oxford University Press, with Spanish physicist, philosopher, and priest, the late Mariano Artigas); Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (2008, HarperOne), which the Washington Post called “One of the best books of 2008"; The Language of Faith and Science: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions (2011, InverVarsity, with NIH Director Francis Collins); Quantum Leap: How John Polkinghorne Found God in Science and Religion (2011, Lion Hudson, with Dean Nelson); The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age (September, 2011, with historian Randall Stephens), published under Harvard University Press’s prestigious Belknap imprint.
Giberson blogs regularly at The Huffington Post where his articles often generate thousands of comments and are frequently featured. 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. One of his essays appears in an anthology used to teach freshman writing.
From 1984 to 2011, Giberson was a professor at Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) where he received numerous recognitions including 3 “Master Teacher” awards and several “Professional Achievement” awards. At ENC he created distinctive interdisciplinary courses and programs, including the college’s first honors program that he led. Initially in the physics department, the area of his Ph.D, he developed and taught courses in the history of science, critical thinking, contemporary issues, science & religion, as well as specialty seminars. From 2007 to 2010 he headed the Forum on Faith at Science at Gordon College. For 3 years, ending in 2009 he was the program director for the Venice Summer School on Science & Religion. This program at the prestigious Venice Institute for Arts and Letters, brought leading scholars to Venice for a week of interaction with mid-career professionals. Scholars on the program included Paul Davies, Owen Gingerich, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, and George Ellis.
In 2008 Giberson was asked by Francis Collins to be the vice-president of his new BioLogos Foundation. (www.Biologos.org). BioLogos was a new initiative promoting science to religious constituencies inclined to reject it.