Justin70

Back when I was doing my own Evolution/Creation research I found an absolutely amazing book that seemed to throw everything in a very readable (and if I remember a very well referenced) way. Maybe this one has been suggested before but I thought I'd toss it up to see if it's still viable:

Science and Earth History - The Evolution / Creation Controversy
By: Arthur N. Strahler / 1987

manderguy

Strahler's book is a pretty good, encyclopedic debunking of creationist claims. The nice thing is that it covers just about everything, from biology to astromony to geology. A second edition was published several years ago, but without many changes.

Ideally there would be a new edition published every five years or so with substantial updates on what the creationists claim. A new edition could cover more ID as well as update some of the creationist claims regarding things like Spirit Lake.

It might be fun to see how creationist claims change over the years as some of them become too ridiculous and only Hovind uses them.

Coragyps

And another not-real-new book that I just finished, written for the not-so-technical reader, is Why We Get Sick - The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by R M Nesse and G C Williams, Vintage, 1996. Very readable and very interesting. It even speculates on why we humans and great apes don't have a urate oxidase gene - having uric acid may scavange free radicals and help us live longer (besides giving us gout.)