Recentemente, o site de comércio eletrônico de livros Amazon.com publicou um roteiro de leitura para entender a questão da batalha entre o criacionismo e o evolucionismo, que reproduzimos abaixo. Infelizmente, a maioria dos livros sugeridos não tem tradução para o português, mas nos casos em que isto ocorre, o título da edição brasileira aparecerá entre parêntesis.
1º Passo: Leia livros sobre a filosofia da ciência
- Religion and Science, Bertrand Russel
- Introduction to Western Philosophy: Ideas and Argument from Plato to Popper, Antony Flew
- The History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russel
2º Passo: Leia livros sobre o mito do criacionismo
- Scientists Confront Creationism, Laurie Godfrey
- Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate, Tim M. Berra
- Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, by National Academy Of Sciences, Steering Committee on Science &. Creation
- The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism, Niles Eldredge
- Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, Robert T. Pennock
- Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism, Philip Kitcher
- Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, Robert T. Pennock
3º Passo: Leia livros sobre os quatorze bilhões de anos de história do Universo e da história o homem
- A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality, Fred Hoyle
- Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe, Simon Singh
- From the Big Bang to the Big Brain, John Dervin
- Bye Bye Big Bang: Hello Reality, William C. Mitchell
- The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, Eric Lerner
- The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe, Stephen W. Hawking
4º Passo: Leia livros sobre o surgimento da vida na Terra
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, Richard Dawkins (O Relojoeiro Cego, Cia das Letras – R$54,50)
- DNA: The Secret of Life, James D. Watson & Andrew Barry (DNA – O Segredo da Vida, Cia das Letras – R$75,00)
- The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview, Iris Fry
- Life's Origin: The Beginnings of Biological Evolution, J. William Schopf
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins
- Where Do We Come From?: The Molecular Evidence for Human Descent, Jan Klein & Naoyuki Takahata
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould
- What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr
- Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer (O Livro de Ouro da Evolução, Ediouro – R$63,00)
5ºPasso: Leia livros sobre Biologia e Genética
- The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, Spencer Wells
- Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, Steve Olson
- Genesis `: The Evolution of Biology, Jan Sapp
- Beyond the Gene: Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics, Jan Sapp
- Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Carl Zimmer
6º Passo: Leia este livro sobre a controvérsia entre Darwin e Lamarck
- Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes Are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, Edward J. Steele et al.
7º Passo: Leia livros sobre as grandes extinções em massa do passado
- When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, M. J. Bengton et al
- Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It, Gabrielle Walker
- Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, Andrew H. Knoll
- Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath, A. Hallam & P. B. Wignall
8º Passo: Leia livros sobre as causas dos colapsos das sociedades
- The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jraed Diamond
9º Passo: Leia livros sobre as questões de vida, morte ética sob as perspectivas humanista e cristã
- The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Robert Wright (O Animal Moral, Ed. Campus – R$65,00)
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker (Tábula Rasa, Cia das Letras – R$59,90)
- Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Bertrand Russel
- Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have A Thing To Do With It, David Mills
- Atheism: The Case Against God, George H. Smith
- Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, Dan Barker
- Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith, Charles Templeton
- Science & Religion: An Introduction, Alister E. McGath
- God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, John F. Haught
10º Passo: Leia livros sobre a história das religiões e das religiões nos EUA
(Obs.: Também para um brasileiro é interessante entender a história das religiões nos EUA, já que o movimento criacionista no nosso país é, em grande parte, espelhado nos movimentos criacionistas estadunidenses, e não na religião católica introduzida no período colonial)
- The Dark Side of Christian History, Hellen Ellerbe
- The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read, Tim C. Leedom
- The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible, Ruth Hurmence Green
- The New American Empire, Rodrigue Tremblay