Science, Faith, and Culture Lecture: "Can I be a Christian and Believe in Evolution?", Karl Giberson

Posted by: Center for Research in Science

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The Topic: 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. In his talk, Giberson will explore 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.  

Karl Giberson is a physicist and scholar specializing in the creation. He was the founding editor of Science & Theology News until 2006 and was the editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit from 2003 to 2007 for the John Templeton Foundation. He has been on the faculty of Eastern Nazarene College since 1984 and is the Director of the Forum on Faith & Science at Gordon College in Massachusetts. He is currently the program director for the Venice Summer School on Science and Religion which runs through 2010.