Exciting Reads from the Creation Science genre

As I mentioned in my earlier post (and all through Beneath the Deep), I really love a good sea monster story. As a young adult, I searched far and wide for sea monster/dinosaur fiction from a Creation Science point of view…and found very little outside of fantasy.

In 2020, I read a book called ‘Extinction Island’ by Janice Boekhoff, and absolutely loved it. I can best describe it as Jurassic Park meets Con Air. This lead me on a search for her earlier books - and I found what I had been looking for over the past 25 years - Creation scientists in fiction. This was the beginning of a beautiful friendship with a very generous and kind, like-minded author.

With Janice’s help, I have been compiling a list of similar books, for people like us. It is my intention that this list be a living document - so please, if you have any to add feel free to send me a note.

Here is our list so far:

Books by Andrea Chatman (www.andreachatman.com)

• Beneath The Deep (sea monsters)

  • “Oceanographer Morgan Sullivan has always loved sea monster legends, and her uncle Daniel always had the best. But when her uncle goes missing under mysterious circumstances, the key to his survival might unleash a secret the world isn’t ready for. Every question leads to another, each more cryptic than the last. From the snowy fields of Iowa to the slopes of Haleakala and to the ocean depths, as the search goes on Morgan finds that the biggest challenge comes from within herself. How far is she willing to go for the answers she seeks? And what is she willing to sacrifice?”

Books by Janice Boekhoff (Author Janice Boekhoff - Books)

• Earth Hunter Series (earth scientists):

  • Crevice

    • “Desperate to save her family’s gold mine, Elery Hearst gives an order that results in the tragic death of one of her men. But before she can come to terms with the guilt consuming her, her brother disappears. To find him, she must find the legendary Lost Dutchman gold mine. And the one person who can help, Lucan Milner, has every reason to want her to fail; he’s the twin brother of the miner who died. He holds the secret to finding Elery’s brother, but sharing it with her not only rips open his grief-stricken heart, it puts both of them in the path of a killer.”

  • Created

    • “After his sister’s death sends him into the loving arms of God, Paleontology Professor Travis Perego fights to reconcile the career he’s devoted his life to with his fragile new faith. His struggle between evolutionary theory and the Bible soon attracts the attention of the dean who makes at least one thing clear in Travis’s life. If he doesn’t figure things out soon, he’s fired.

      Then a former student tells him of an experiment designed to prove evolution true. Could it be possible to retrace the path of evolution through bird DNA—to reverse engineer a dinosaur? If so, Travis could finally get answers to the questions plaguing his thoughts and threatening his career.

      Desperate to know if the experiment succeeded, Travis searches the jungles of Costa Rica for the missing biology professor and the mysterious creature he created. On the hunt to find them, Travis meets Lenaia, a woman with her own reasons to search for the creature. Though both have secrets, Travis and Lenaia agree to work together before their chances of finding the creature—and the truth—evaporate into the thick jungle mist.”

  • Cascade

    • “The men around Volcanologist Lenaia Talavera have a habit of dying. As she struggles to process the tragedies, she pulls away from God and her boyfriend, Paleontologist Travis Perego. So when she’s called back to Mt. Rainier and the small town of Mayim to investigate an act of sabotage, she jumps at the chance to avoid her problems and solve the puzzle. Someone on the mountain has tampered with the early warning system for rising magma, but who would want to risk an eruption that could kill an entire town?

      Lenaia soon discovers that two women from town have disappeared. When she finds one of them dead on the mountain, she suspects the murder is related to the sabotage.

      As she digs deeper, the evidence leads her to a deserted part of the mountain and an explosive secret. Unsure of who to trust and with time running out, Lenaia must stop a deadly plan before a killer buries the town of Mayim in a cascade of evil.”

• Jurassic Judgement (Jurassic Park meets ConAir)

  • Extinction Island

    • “Dangerous Convicts. Deadly Dinosaurs. The secret encoded in her DNA lies between them…”

  • Deception Island

    • “An island prison. Deadly dinosaur species. A daring escape. Now it it’s a race to find the truth before someone notices she’s gone…”

Books by Julie Cave (Amazon.com: Julie Cave: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle)

• Dinah Harris mysteries (FBI agent - Apologetics focused)

  • Deadly Disclosures

    • “How far will some go to silence an influential Christian voice?”

  • The Shadowed Mind

    • “After the deadly investigation into the Smithsonian murders, Dinah Harris is now facing a daily battle to keep her sobriety while struggling to form a new career from the ashes of her former job as an FBI agent. From the shadows will emerge a cunning and terrifying killer, who carefully and methodically will decide whose life has value to society and whose does not.”

  • Pieces of Light

    • “Detective Dinah Harris hunts down a serial bomber who is targeting religious icons and buildings on a mission to rid the city of religion and establish a 'new world order'. Can someone so intent on ridding the world of God experience redemption? What lies behind his hatred of God? Will his darkened soul search for pieces of light?”

  • The Dark Heart

    • “Angus Whitehall’s past never really died....it just stubbornly waited for vengeance. A killer has settled into his small rural community, and no one suspects that the local pastor knows much more than he can say.”

If you have any to add, please drop me a line - via the contact page or Facebook.