Karl W. Giberson, a physics professor at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., is hardly alone in holding both views (Francis Collins, who headed up federal Human Genome Project, is one widely-known example of a Christian scientist), but the nation's current cultural climate allows such a person to easily make a splash.
Giberson has rejected fundamentalism, but remains a believer as well as a scientist. He has staked out a middle ground when it comes to the battle between Christians and Darwinists, stating that they can be reconciled with one another.
He is sympathetic toward the motivations of creationists and scientists alike, though he is fed up with much of intelligent design as well as with hard-core atheists....