I thought most of the series was excellent for the kids to get exposure to the issues. For any adults that were not familiar with the debate, it gave good background.

It's been a couple years since we watched it, so I don't remember exactly which ones were the best. I think I liked "Six Days of Creation," and I believe that was the one with the video clip of Richard Dawkins stumbling over the "evolution of information" question.

I'm particularly passionate about the "Only One Race" topic, so that one resonated with me. It helped me explain to my kids how genetic isolation produced the differing skin tones. That was also new material for some adults who watched it.

After watching the series, I bought Werner Gitt's book "In The Beginning Was Information." I am still completely fascinated by this angle of the debate, because it highlights the insufficiency of materialism in explaining who and what we are. A dead organism is 100% material, while a live organism has an additional component of "information" and "programming" that has no mass and can't be measured.

But I must confess, I only made it through 60% of the book. It turns out that it's a translation from German, and it was a very dry translation at that. What I read was very good in terms of content, though, and added to my thinking on the whole subject of the massive amount of data and programming contained in living cells.

Another one I've read is "The Young Earth" by John D. Morris. It's in a hand-illustrated workbook-type format. It gives a good overview of all the major areas of debate, including the geologic layers and radioisotope dating. There is much more recent material debunking radioisotope dating of igneous rocks, though. This book was first published in June 1994, and science changes fast in that amount of time.

I have subscribed to "Creation Magazine" published by AIG and liked that a lot. It's especially good reading for the kids, and has a "popular science" level of depth on current events related to creation and evolution.

And last, but not least, I've subscribed to a couple of mags in that past that I have enjoyed and learned from. They are "The In Depth Journal of Creation," published by AIG, and "Creation Research Society Quarterly," published (obviously) by CRS, not AIG. Both are written more for researchers and scientists than the lay person, but I have good articles I've picked out of them that have stuck with me in explaining various issues.

As I was compiling all these links I couldn't help but think of how merchandising has both contributed to and detracted from modern Christianity. But that's probably best left for another thread. :-)