Kansas Citizens for Science
Recommended Books
Science and Culture
Humes, Edward, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul, Ecco, 2007
One of the best new books dealing with the intersection of science, religion and culture.
Pennock, Robert T., Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, MIT Press, 2000.
A review of how creationists are now forging a more subtle and insidious attack on the nature of science itself including how reliance on an “intelligent designer” undermines all aspects of science.
Miller, Keith, (Editor), Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003
The authors of our book explore evolutionary theory from a clearly Christian perspective. They argue that the common view of conflict between evolutionary theory and Christian faith is mistaken.
Sagan, Carl, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Ballantine Books, 1997
Quite possibly the best, all-around, pro-science book ever written. Absolutely superb!
Miller, Kenneth R., Finding Darwin’s God: a Scientist’s search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, Cliff Street Books, 1999
The author is both a scientist, who accepts the Theory of Evolution as the best explanation for the diversity of life we see in the world around us, and a Christian. The mere existence of this book nicely demolishes any accusations that science (and especially evolution) is, or supports atheism, and in fact shows how an understanding of evolution can lead to a deeper reverence for, a greater faith in, God.
Forrest, Barbara and Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, Oxford University Press, 2004
An expose of the Discovery Institute and its wedge strategy.
Perakh, Mark, Unintelligent Design, Prometheus Books, 2003
Perakh debunks both scientific creationism and its stepchild, intelligent design.
Science Only
Gould, Stephen J.,Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, W.W. Norton, 1990
Sacks, Oliver, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Vintage, 2002
Sagan, Carl,Cosmos, Random House, 2002
Hazen, Robert M. and James Trefil,Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy, Anchor, 1990
Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species, Collier, numerous editions. You might as well read it from the horses mouth.
Weiner, Jonathan, The Beak of the Finch, Vintage Books, 1995
Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe, Vintage Books, 2005
Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway, 2004
Ridley, Matt, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Harper Perennial, 2003
Ridley, Matt, Genome, Harper Collins, 1999
Zimmer, Carl, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures, The Free Press, 2000
Zimmer, Carl, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Harper Collins, 2001
Carroll, Sean B., Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo/Devo, W.W. Norton, 2005
Caporale, Lynn Helena, Darwin in the Genome: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution, McGraw Hill, 2003
Science, The National Academies, Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, National Academy Press, 1998 Read to understand why science is taught the way it is. This can be read free online.
10/5/2018