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Author Karl W. Giberson in Conversation with Michael Shermer
An evening of conversation between Karl W. Giberson, author of Saving Darwin (HarperOne) and Michael Shermer, Skeptic magazine
The Harvard Club, New York City
Monday, November 17, 2008
Raised a fundamentalist, Giberson firmly believed in creationism during his college years. But while working on his Ph.D. in physics, he began to doubt that science could have gotten everything as thoroughly wrong as the creationists suggested. In Saving Darwin, he paints a clear picture of the creation/evolution controversy and explores its intricate history, from Darwin to the current culture wars, carefully showing why — and how — it is possible to believe at the same time in both God and modern evolutionary science.
Karl W. Giberson is professor of physics at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. A leading scholar in the field of science and religion, he was the founding editor of Science & Theology News and has served as editor-in-chief of Science & Spirit magazine. He is the author of, among other books, Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Science and Religion and Species of Origin: America's Search for a Creation Story (with Don Yerxa).
Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a professor at Claremont Graduate University. His many books include How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God and Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design.