Karl W. Giberson

Karl Giberson
Born May 13, 1957 (age 58)
Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
Residence USA
Citizenship Canadian
Nationality Canadian
Fields Physics, Theology
Institutions Eastern Nazarene College, Stonehill College
Alma mater Eastern Nazarene College, Rice University
Doctoral advisor Barry Dunning
Website
http://www.karlgiberson.com

Karl Willard Giberson (born May 13, 1957) is a physicist, scholar, and author specializing in the creation-evolution debate (see Creation-evolution controversy). He has held a teaching post since 1984, written several books, and been a member of various academic and scientific organizations. He formerly served as vice president of the BioLogos Foundation.[1]

Education

Giberson holds two Bachelor's degrees (in Philosophy and in Physics/Math) from Eastern Nazarene College, and both a Master's degree in Physics and a PhD in Physics from Rice University.

Career

Giberson was a member of the faculty at his alma mater, Eastern Nazarene College, from 1984 to 2011. In that time, he taught courses on physics, astronomy, and science and religion, as well as directing the Honors Scholar Program. His strong support for evolution made him increasingly controversial [2] and played a role in his departure in 2011.[3]

Giberson is also a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA). He co-directed the Venice Summer School on Science and Religion,[4] and has lectured on science and religion at Oxford University, the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Sicily, and various colleges and universities in the United States. In 2006, he was invited to speak at the Vatican on "America's Ongoing Hostility to Darwinism" and at the Harvard Club of New York in 2008. In early 2009, Giberson became the Executive Vice President of The BioLogos Foundation, founded by Francis Collins.[5] He served briefly as president before leaving the foundation in 2011 to further pursue his passion for writing.[6][7]

In 2012, Giberson became a faculty member at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, where he presently serves as Scholar-in-Residence in science and religion.[8]

In 2013, Giberson was elected to the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR).[9]

Published works

Giberson is a contributing editor to Books & Culture, where he has published many essays on science. 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 from 2003-2006 for the John Templeton Foundation.[10]

Giberson has published over two hundred articles, reviews, and essays, both technical and popular. In addition to blogging regularly at the Huffington Post,[11] Giberson has written for The New York Times,[12] Salon.com,[13] Discover, Perspectives on Science & Faith, CNN.com,[14] Quarterly Review of Biology,[15] Weekly Standard,[16] Christian History, Christianity Today, Zygon, USA Today[17] and other publications. He has appeared on many radio shows including NPR's Talk of the Nation.[18]

His essay "Say it Ain't So: America's Ongoing Hostility to Religion" appears in the college reader What Matters in America.[19]

Books

References

  1. ↑ http://biologos.org/blog/karl-giberson-moves-on-to-create-more-time-for-writing
  2. ↑ https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/karl-giberson-promotes-christian-evolution-at-enc/
  3. ↑ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/02/2013-was-a-terrible-year-for-evolution.html
  4. ↑ Eastern Nazarene College: News
  5. ↑ BioLogos.org
  6. ↑ http://biologos.org/about/history
  7. ↑ http://biologos.org/blog/karl-giberson-moves-on-to-create-more-time-for-writing
  8. ↑ http://www.stonehill.edu/directory/karl-giberson/
  9. ↑ http://www.issr.org.uk/meet-issr-members/member/?member_id=188
  10. ↑ American Scientific Affiliation newsletter, Jul/Aug 2001, Vol. 43 No. 4
  11. ↑ "Karl Giberson, Ph.D". Huffington Post. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  12. ↑ Karl W. Giberson; Randall J. Stephens (17 October 2011). "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  13. ↑ Giberson, Karl (31 July 2008). "What's wrong with science as religion". Salon.com. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  14. ↑ Giberson, Karl (10 April 2011). "My Take: Jesus would believe in evolution and so should you". CNN.com. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  15. ↑ Giberson, Karl W. (December 2010). "Theology in the Context of Science". The Quarterly Review of Biology 85 (4): 485–486. doi:10.1086/656832. JSTOR 10.1086/656832.
  16. ↑ Giberson, Karl (8 March 2010). "Scientific Methods". Weekly Standard. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  17. ↑ Giberson, Karl W. (27 May 2010). "Atheists, it's time to play well with others". USA Today. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  18. ↑ "Evangelical Christians Form Parallel Structure". NPR. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  19. ↑ Goshgarian, Gary (2010). What Matters in America. Longman Publishing Group. ISBN 0-205-66922-0.
  20. ↑ Karl Giberson, Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science, Beacon Hill Press, 1993 ISBN 0-8341-1504-2
  21. ↑ Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002 ISBN 0-7425-0764-5
  22. ↑ Reviews for Species of Origins
  23. ↑ Book cover for Polish translation
  24. ↑ Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas, The Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientist Versus God and Religion, Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-19-531072-1
  25. ↑ Giberson is, in fact, the first scholar associated with the Church of the Nazarene to publish with the Oxford University Press.
  26. ↑ http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/PhilosophyofReligion/?view=usa&ci=9780195310726 "Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion"
  27. ↑ Karl Giberson, Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution HarperOne, 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-144173-8
  28. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/index.html Washington Post Book World, Best Books of 2008
  29. ↑ Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, "The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions, InverVarsity Press, 2011 ISBN 0-8308-3829-5
  30. ↑ http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/review/code=3829 The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions Product Details
  31. ↑ Dean Nelson and Karl Giberson, Quantum Leap: How John Polkinghorne Found God in Science and Religion, Lion UK, 2011 ISBN 0-7459-5401-4
  32. ↑ Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson, The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, Harvard University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-674-04818-8
  33. ↑ Karl Giberson; Randall Stephens (17 October 2011). "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  34. ↑ Karl Giberson, The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World, IVP Books, 2012 ISBN 0-8308-3819-8
  35. ↑ Karl Giberson, Seven Glorious Days: A Scientist Retells the Genesis Creation Story, Paraclete Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1557259288
  36. ↑ Karl Giberson, Saving the Original Sinner: How Christians Have Used the Bible's First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World, Beacon Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0807012512

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