It is a good day.

I just went down to my mailbox, and discovered that Greenwood Publishing Group had sent me free copies of Mark Isaak's The Counter-Creationism Handbook and Eugenie Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction.

Wow.

That first one is an indispensable reference work. If you've seen the web page, you know what it is like—long lists of creationist fallacies, all well indexed, with neat, short, referenced refutations. I will never, ever go to another creationist lecture without this book in my hands. This is what we've needed for a long time; if you've ever attended a creationist talk, you know that what they do is simply parrot the same old garbage as quickly as possible—the one talent required for a creationist is to be able to lie really, really fast. This is a book that'll help us spit out the truth almost as rapidly.

I've only just started Scott's book, but I can say that it is well-written and also well-sourced. It looks to be a solid introduction to the issues in the war against science in which the creationists are engaged. I'll write more when I've finished it.