Saving Darwin: How to Be a
Christian and Believe
in Evolution
by Dr. Karl Giberson
Published 2008: 256 pages
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
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 the
scientists. More often than not, both camps see the other as "the enemy."
But what about committed Christians who find something lacking in the ideas
of both creationism and intelligent design? Can you still be a Christian and
support the idea of evolution?
Scientist Karl Giberson believes you can. Raised a fundamentalist and
influenced as a boy by Henry Morris's creationist classic The Genesis Flood,
Giberson firmly believed in creationism through 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, and he
gradually abandoned his creationist beliefs—but not his belief in
Christianity. Through careful research, Giberson concluded that Christianity
and evolution do not have to be incompatible. In Saving Darwin, Giberson
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 in God and evolution at the
same time.