Some Books I Read in 2025

The Bookshop by Evan Friss (2024)
This book is a mix of long and short chapters covering the histories of some famous bookstores. It covers the rise of Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and sidewalk dealers in New York. It covers bookstores specializing in Nazi, Communist, gay, feminist, and African-American literature and the effects on society each had. It begins by talking about Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
 
The Young Earth by John D. Morris (1994)
This book is a great introduction to the young-Earth creationist position. Better than similar books I read in the nineties, it makes clear what assumptions come into play when deducing a rock’s age and breaks down the various levels of circular reasoning that the establishment has used to support the idea that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. It also covers such things as magnetic field decay, erosion, helium retention, and more.
 
Zombie Science by Jonathan Wells (2017)
This book exposes that many of the foundational studies that supported evolution were either mistakes or outright fraud. Haeckel’s embryo drawings don’t match reality and peppered moths were taped to trees, yet they remain in textbooks. Other commonly-repeated icons have long been known to have limited validity at best, such as “junk” DNA that actually has uses, and the ease at forming amino acids in a reducing atmosphere even though there is no evidence that Earth ever had such an atmosphere. If the evidence that first convinced biologists to jump on the evolution bandwagon has all been debunked, how can we trust the evidence we have today?