Clip 3: What are the spiritual implications of science? (Templeton Foundation)

An evening of conversation between Karl W. Giberson, author of "Saving Darwin: How to be Christian and Believe in Evolution" (HarperOne) and Michael Shermer, Skeptic magazine. For more information about Templeton Book Forum events, please visit http://www.templeton.org/events/book_forums/

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: How to be Christian and Believe in Evolution," 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.

About the Speakers:

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.

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