Books, Periodicals, and Pamphlets
Before you ask: no, I haven't read them all myself.
But everything here got a good review from someone or other.
Recent
- The T.O. Reading
List of perhaps 20 books, with reviews.
- The T.O. Periodicals
List gives the ICR's phone number and such.
- Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record, Duane Gish,
Master Books, San Diego, 1985.
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Scientific Creationism, Henry Morris, San Diego: Creation-Life
Publishers 1974
(There are more recent books by Morris and by his son.)
- The Fingerprint of God, Hugh Ross, Promise Publishing
Company, 1989, 234 pp.
- Fossils and the History of Life, George Gaylord Simpson,
Scientific American Books, 1983
Popular science, great pictures,
wide ranging within its topic, authoritative at the time it was
written.
- The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins,
Norton, 1987, ISBN 0-393-30448-5
Good presentation of many topics.
- River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins,
Basic Books, 1995, ISBN 0-465-01606-5
Less specific than Blind Watchmaker.
- Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins, W. W. Norton,
1996. Specifically about how complexity can arise in many small steps.
- Stephen Jay Gould has written numerous books, usually collections
of scientific essays. They're all interesting.
- The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner,
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, ISBN 0-679-40003-6
This won a Pulitzer Prize. Very readable.
- The Cartoon Guide to Genetics,
Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis, HarperPerennial 1991
- Science and Earth History, Arthur N. Strahler,
Prometheus Books, 1987, 552 pp. ISBN 0-87975-414-1
Has detailed discussions of most Creationist arguments.
- The
Age of the Earth, Brent Dalrymple, Stanford University Press,
1991, 474 pages. ISBN 0-8047-1569-6
Good presentation of many radioactive dating methods. Much detail
about things which dated as being the oldest. Aimed at science-book
readers: the general public might find Ancient
Earth, Ancient Skies more accessible.
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett,
Touchstone, 1996, ISBN 0-684-80280-2
or Simon and Schuster, 1995
or Penguin, 1996 ISBN 0-14-016734-X
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Science and Creationism, Ashley Montagu, ed.,
Oxford University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-19-503253-5
- Is God A Creationist? Edited by Roland Mushat Frye, Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, 1983. ISBN 0-684-17993-8. $15.95, 205pp
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Abusing Science, Philip Kitcher,
MIT Press, 1993, ISBN 0-262-61037-X
A superb book by a philosopher of science.
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Science On Trial, Douglas J. Futuyma,
Sinauer, 1995.
Very readable book by an important scientist.
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The Triumph of Evolution .. And The Failure of Creationism,
Niles Eldredge. Freeman, 2000
Readable book by the co-inventor of Punctuated Equilibrium.
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Finding
Darwin's God, Kenneth R. Miller, Cliff Street Books, 1999
A widely praised book. He argues that religion and evolution are
compatible, and analyzes Creationism and Intelligent Design.
"He goes into all of the lines of evidence for why we know
evolution to be true, then explains why this isn't a threat to his
faith. Some evangelicals find him "too Catholic"."
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Tower
of Babel, Robert T. Pennock, MIT Press 1999
A scientist's examination of Creationism.
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Intelligent
Design Creationism and Its Critics, Robert T. Pennock (Editor),
MIT Press 2001
Includes articles by both sides.
- Scientists Confront Creationism, Laurie Godfrey, ed.,
W.W. Norton, 1983, 324 pp., ISBN 0-393-30154-0
A series of essays.
- Voices for Evolution, Molleen
Matsumura, ed., NCSE, 1995, ISBN 0-939873-53-2
- In the Beginning..., Chris McGowan,
Prometheus Books, 1984, 208 pp., ISBN 0-87975-240-8
- The Mythmakers Magic, Delos McKown,
Prometheus Books, 1993, ISBN 0-87975-770-1
- Cult Archaeology and Creationism, Harrold and Eve, eds.,
University of Iowa Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87745-513-9
- The Fire in the Equations--Science, Religion and the Search for
God, Eerdmans Publishing Company 1996
- Evolution and the Myth of Creationism,Tim M. Berra,
Stanford University Press, 1990, 198 pp
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Coral Reefs and Related Carbonate Structures as Indicators of
Great Age, Wonderly, Daniel E., Pennsylvania, IBRI 1981 19 pp.
I believe Wonderly is an Old-Earth Creationist.
- Neglect of Geologic Data: Sedimentary Strata Compared with
Young-Earth Creationist Writings,, Wonderly, Daniel E., IBRI,
1987, 130 pp.
I believe Wonderly is an Old-Earth Creationist.
- Christianity and the Age of the Earth, Davis Young, Zondervan 1982
Young is a conservative evangelical writer and a professor of Geology
at Calvin College.
- A Christian view of Origins, Don England, Grand Rapids, 1971
- Wesley
Elsberry has reviewed some books.
- Biology Through the Eyes of Faith, Richard Wright,
HarperSanFrancisco.
Written by an evangelical Christian.
- Coming to Peace with Science, Darrell Falk.
Written by an evangelical Christian.
- Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, Keith B. Miller ed.
"Keith is an evangelical Christian and a geologist. The
contributors are all evangelicals, arguing that one need not reject
religion in order to accept good science. But you also see these
contributors acknowledging the genuine challenges they face as
evangelicals who accept good science. Excellent book."
- Lenny
Flank has reviewed some books.
- Some of these people have things for sale.
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