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The books are listed below in roughly increasing order of difficulty or technicality; an effort has been made in each book’s description to indicate the normal reading level. If any of the books become unavailable from Barnes&Noble.com for any reason, they should be available from the Answers in Genesis Bookstore.


Click to order Creation MagazineCreation Magazine
Answers in Genesis; Dr. Carl Wieland, editor

Creation Ex Nihilo is a family magazine about God’s Word and God’s world--science and creation. It is published quarterly by Answers in Genesis. This magazine contains fascinating feature stories every issue on various aspects of creation science and Biblical history and archaeology. The articles are written by highly credentialed creation scientists and other qualified authors, with laymen in mind (technical terms and discussions are explained and diagrammed in side-bars). They keep tabs on the current news in evolutionary theory and report on their “breakthroughs” in a way you won’t find in the morning newspaper. Recent feature articles covered such topics as Design and Natural Selection in Bears, Evolution’s
Creation MagazineInherent Racism, Did Australia’s Aborigines See Dinosaurs?, Granites -- They Don’t Need Millions of Years to Cool, Heirloom Plants -- Hostile to Evolution, Exploding the Big Bang Myth, interviews with top researchers and scientists, articles to help believers defend their faith, and more, more, more. Creation contains the breaking discoveries that newspapers and National Geographic won’t cover. Very highly recommended for the entire trivium, and especially necessary for the dialectic stage!


Click to order Bone of Contention: Is Evolution True?Bone of Contention: Is Evolution True?
Sylvia Baker

This brief magazine-style book contains one of the best complete overviews of the creation vs. evolution debate. Covering all the major areas of biology, the fossil record, geology, astronomy, and more. The book ends with a strong gospel message, and has led many to the Lord. Written for the general high school through adult reader.


Click to order The Evolutionary ControversyThe Evolutionary Controversy
Dr. David Menton

This one-hour DVD of Dr. Menton’s most popular introductory talk summarizing his best evidences—from the fascinating design of the feather to the remarkable architecture of the honeycomb—to support the creation view of origins. He shows that our world and its fascinating creatures clearly display God’s handiwork. Dr. Menton also disposes of some of the traditional evidences used to support evolution. An associate professor emeritus of anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Menton was awarded “Professor of the Year” in 1998 by his students for his lively and interesting lectures. Dr. Menton holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from Brown University.


Click to order Creation: Facts of LifeCreation: Facts of Life
Dr. Gary Parker

An excellent book to introduce the question of creation science. Chapter 1: Evidence of Creation covers the origin of life, DNA, proteins, homology (the study of similar biological structures in living things), and adaptation and ecology; Chapter 2: Darwin and Biologic Change covers natural selection, pangenesis, mutations, variations within created kinds, and species and kinds. Chapter 3: The Fossil Evidence covers the kinds of fossils found--invertebrates, fossil plants, vertebrates, and human fossils, and how fast those fossils were laid down, discussing neo-catastrophism and the grand canyon. Written as an introduction to the subject of creation science for the general junior high through adult reader.


Click to order Refuting EvolutionRefuting Evolution
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati

Refuting Evolution is a general critique of the most up-to-date arguments for evolution to challenge educators, students, and parents. Thus it provides a good summary of the arguments against evolution and for creation. The author, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, wrote the book as a response to the National Academy of Science booklet “Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science.” Within the short space of 140 pages, the book gives a clear, well-documented summary of the major topics of the creation-evolution controversy, e.g. origin and complexity, the design inference, the essential difference between micro- and macro-evolutionary change, the committment of evolutionists to the worldview of naturalism; the “evolution” of birds, whales, and humans are given a chapter each.It should stimulate much discussion and help students and teachers think more critically about origins. Read the review by Tim Wallace published on the True Origins Archive.


Click to order Refuting Evolution 2Refuting Evolution 2
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati

Subtitled: What PBS and the Scientific Community Don’t Want You to Know. This new book follows the success of Dr. Sarfati’s Refuting Evolution, this one specfically rebuts the arguments and evidences presented in the PBS mega series “Evolution” and the recent spate of popular magazine articles tackling the creation - evolution debate. In the same style that made Refuting Evolution a best-seller, Sarfati deftly exposes the false premise behind many evolutionary assumptions.


Click to order Evolution: A Theory in CrisisEvolution: A Theory in Crisis
Michael Denton

Subtitled: New Developments in Science are Challenging Orthodox Darwinism. Written by a non-believing, non-creationist scientist who nevertheless acknowledges the massive shortcomings of neo-Darwinism in being able to explain certain puzzles which completely defy evolutionary theory. He explores the impossibility of macro-evolution (with such examples as the unique design features of the avian lung) while showing how micro-evolution (i.e. speciation) does work; he shows how the so-called “standard” transitional forms in the fossil record aren’t, etc. “This book contributes very sound scientific reasoning into a subject usually filled with religious argument of either evolutionism or creationism.” A semi-technical work; however, written for the non-scientist, for the high school through adult reader.


Click to order Scientific CreationismScientific Creationism
Dr. Henry M. Morris

An excellent book presenting the creation theory of the origins of life and the universe based solely on the scientific facts and the laws of biology and physics. Continuously reprinted since 1974, this second edition has been updated with new evidence and information in every chapter. A look at its table of contents will give an idea of the exhaustive scope of the work: Evolution or Creation (The Importance of Origins, Impossibility of Scientific Proof of Origins, The Two Scientific Models of Origins, Pedagogical Advantages of the Creation Model), Chaos or Cosmos (Origin of Matter, Energy, and Natural Law, The Beginning of the Universe, Origin of the Solar System, Purpose in Creation), Uphill or Downhill (The Laws of Thermodynamics, The Origin of Life, Variation and Selection, Genetic Mutations), Accident or Plan (The Complexity of Living Systems, Similarities and Differences, Vestiges and Recapitulations, Systematic Gaps in the Fossil Record), Uniformitarianism or Catastrophism (The Testimony of the Fossils, Rapid Formation of Geologic Deposits, Contemporaneity of the Fossil World, Residual Catastrophism), Old or Young (How to Date a Rock, Radiometric Dating, Evidence for a Young Earth, the Antiquity of Man), Apes or Men (The Origin of Man, Languages and Races, Ancient Civilizations, The Origin of Religion), Creation According to Scripture. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on creationism, and an index of subjects, names, and Scriptures. The book has been written to serve as either a textbook on creationism or as a reference for teachers desiring to present a balanced look at the origins issue in biology classes; therefore, while scientific and academic, it was written with the non-scientist in mind. It has been reviewed by no less than 23 scientists and professors of science education in all fields of study, including aerospace and nuclear engineering, biochemistry, physiology and biophysics, and geology just to name a few. Highly recommended.

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Sometimes books go out of print, or the publisher runs out of stock. Any book not available from Barnes&Noble.com for any reason can be searched using AddAll.com, a book shopping site which will scan Barnes&Noble.com as well as Amazon.com, Powell’s Books, Book Close Outs and many other new and used book sites. Be sure to also check BookFinder.com for out of print book searches.

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