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SELECT RESOURCES of INTEREST to CREATIONISTS by Ashby L SELECT RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO CREATIONISTS By Ashby L. Camp I. Books A. Recent-Creation Perspective Edgar H. Andrews, Werner Gitt, and Willem J. Ouweneel, eds., Concepts in Creationism (Welwyn, Herts, England: Evangelical Press, 1986) John F. Ashton, ed., In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2000) Steven A. Austin, ed., Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe (Santee, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1994) Jerry Bergman, Peter Line, Jeffrey Tomkins, and Daniel Biddle, Apes as Ancestors: Examining the claims about human evolution (Tulsa, OK: Bartlett Publishing, 2020) Leonard Brand and Arthur Chadwick, Faith, Reason, and Earth History, 3rd ed. (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 2016) Leonard Brand and David C. Jarnes, Beginnings: Are Science and Scripture Partners in the Search for Origins? (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press Publishing, 2006) John Byl, God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 2001) Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle, Old-Earth Creationism on Trial: The Verdict Is In (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Publishing, 2008) Abner Chou, ed., What Happened in the Garden (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2016) Timothy Clarey, Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood (Dallas: Institute for Creation Research, 2020) Harold G. Coffin, Robert H. Brown, and L. James Gibson, Origin by Design, rev. ed. (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing, 2005) Vernon R. Cupps, Rethinking Radiometric Dating: Evidence for a Young Earth from a Nuclear Physicist (Dallas: Institute for Creation Research, 2019) David DeWitt, Unraveling the Origins Controversy (Lynchburg, VA: Creation Curriculum, 2007) Don DeYoung, Thousands . Not Billions (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005) 1 Danny Faulkner, Universe By Design: An Explanation of Cosmology and Creation (Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004) Danny Faulkner, The Created Cosmos (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2016) Danny Faulkner, The Expanse of Heaven (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2017) David M. Fouts, Right from the Start! Calling Evangelical Leadership to Faith in Genesis 1-2, 2nd ed. (n.p.: Courthouse Printers, 2015) Paul Garner, The New Creationism: Building Scientific Theory on a Biblical Foundation (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2009) Jim Gibson, An Appeal to Reason: Examining the Evidence of Origins in the Evolution Versus Creation Debate (Mustang, OK; Tate Publishing, 2014) Ken Ham, ed., The New Answers Book (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006) Ken Ham and Bodie Hodges, A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2016) Brad Harrub and Bert Thompson, The Truth About Human Origins (Montgomery, AL: Apologetics Press, 2003) John Hartnett, Creation, Time and the New Physics (Powder Springs, GA: Creation Book Publishers, 2007) Daniel Howell, Sometimes Deceived: how evolutionists have led us astray (Lynchburg, VA: Blue Ridge Books, 2017) George T. Javor, Evidences for Creation: Natural Mysteries Evolution Cannot Explain (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing, 2005) Nathaniel Jeanson, Replacing Darwin (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2017) Douglas F. Kelly, Creation and Change: Genesis 1:1-2.4 in the Light of Changing Scientific Paradigms, rev. ed. (Geanies House, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2017) Andrew S. Kulikovsky, Creation, Fall, Restoration (Geanies House, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2009) Marvin Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004) 2 Henry Morris and John Morris, The Modern Creation Trilogy (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1996) John Morris, The Young Earth, rev. ed. (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2007) John Morris, The Global Flood: Unlocking Earth's Geologic History (Dallas: Institute for Creation Research, 2013) John Morris and Frank Sherwin, The Fossil Record: Unearthing Nature's History of Life (Dallas: Institute for Creation Research, 2010) Terry Mortenson and Thane H. Ury, Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2008) Terry Mortenson, ed., Searching for Adam: Genesis & the Truth About Origins (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2016) Michael Oard, Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, the Ice Age, and the Bible (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004) Michael Oard, The Frozen Record: Examining the Ice Core History of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets (Santee, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 2005) Michael Oard, Flood By Design: Receding Water Shapes the Earth's Surface (Green Forest, Master Books, 2008) Michael J. Oard, The Deep Time Deception: Examining the Case for Millions of Years (Powder Springs, GA: Creation Book Publishers, 2019) Michael J. Oard and John K. Reed, eds., Rock Solid Answers: Responses to Popular Objections to Biblical Geology (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2009) Michael J. Oard and John K. Reed, How Noah's Flood Shaped Our Earth (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2017) Richard D. Phillips, ed., God, Adam, and You (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2015) John K. Reed, Rocks Aren't Clocks: A Critique of the Geological Timescale (Powder Springs, GA: Creation Book Publishers 2013) John K. Reed and Michael J. Oard, eds., The Geologic Column: Perspectives within Diluvial Geology (Chino Valley, AZ: Creation Research Society, 2006) Marcus Ross and others, The Heavens & the Earth: Excursions in Earth and Space Science (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2015) 3 Ariel A. Roth, Origins: Linking Science and Scripture (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing, 1998) Chris Rupe and John Sanford, Contested Bones (Livonia, NY: FMS Publications, 2017) John C. Sanford, Genetic Entropy, 4th ed. (Livonia, NY: FMS Publications, 2014) Jonathan Sarfati, Refuting Compromise, rev. ed. (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2011) Jonathan Sarfati, The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on Evolution (Atlanta: Creation Book Publishers, 2010) Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11 (Powder Springs, GA: Creation Book Publishers, 2015) Andrew A. Snelling, Earth's Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation & the Flood (Dallas: Institute for Creation Research, 2009) (2 vols.) James Stroud, Creationism Revisited – 2020 – A Defense of Recent Creation by an Agnostic (Plantation, FL: Breezeway Books, 2020) William VanDoodewaard, The Quest for the Historical Adam (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2015) Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling, and Eugene Chaffin, eds., Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth Vol. I (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 2000) Larry Vardiman, Andrew Snelling, and Eugene Chaffin, eds., Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth Vol. II (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 2005) Victor P. Warkulwiz, The Doctrines of Genesis 1 – 11: A Compendium of Traditional Catholic Theology on Origins (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2007) Alex Williams and John Hartnett, Dismantling the Big Bang: God's Universe Rediscovered (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005) Kurt P. Wise, Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms About Creation and the Age of the Universe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2002) Kurt P. Wise, Devotional Biology: Learning to Worship the Creator of Organisms (Nashville: Compass Classroom, 2018) Kurt P. Wise and Sheila A. Richardson, Something from Nothing: Understanding What You Believe About Creation and Why (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2004) 4 Todd Charles Wood and Paul A. Garner, eds., Genesis Kinds: Creationism and the Origin of Species (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009) Todd Charles Wood and Megan J. Murray, Understanding the Pattern of Life: Origins and Organization of the Species (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2003) John Woodmorappe, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1996) John Woodmorappe, The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1999) B. Intelligent Design & Critiques of Materialistic Alternatives Edgar Andrews, Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything (Darlington, England: EP Books, 2009) Moshe Averick, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism (Los Angeles: Mosaica Press, 2016) Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (New York: HarperOne, 2016) Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul (New York: HarperOne, 2007) Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York: The Free Press, 1996) Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism (New York: The Free Press, 2007) Michael J. Behe, Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution (New York: HarperOne, 2019) Michael J. Behe, William A. Dembski, and Stephen C. Meyer, Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe (Ft. Collins, CO: Ignatius Press, 2000) Tom Bethell, Darwin's House of Cards: A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates (Seattle, WA: Discovery Institute Press, 2017) Neil Broom, How Blind Is the Watchmaker? Nature's Design & the Limits of Naturalistic Science (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001) Stuart Burgess, Hallmarks of Design (Leominster, England: Day One Publications, 2004) 5 John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer, eds., Darwinism, Design, and Public
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