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Creation Science Club #1
Challenging Ms. Eva Lution
DAVID HAS A GIANT TO FACE! Thirteen-year-old David Avila has grown up believing that the Bible is true. But now, his eighth grade honors science class is bringing him face-to-face with a seemingly unstoppable giant-the theory of evolution. David is almost ready to give up until he meets the Creation Science Club. Together, David and his new friends go on some amazing adventures-scaling the walls of the Grand Canyon, swimming the shores of the Galapagos Islands, and hiking the hills of Yellowstone National Park. Their goal is to collect scientific stones of truth so they can meet and defeat the giant-evolution. Join the Creation Science Club in learning real-life scientific evidence that refutes evolution and upholds the truth of the Word of God.
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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September 4, 2025
For some reason Goodreads is bringing me to the same page to review the first two books in this series and only allowing me to post one review so I've posted both reviews in order here.
Challenging Ms. Eva Lution
Number of pages: 143
Genre: Children’s fiction
Series: Creation Science Club #1
Age recommendation: 10-14ish
Summary: David Avila is in seventh grade honours science class at Darwin Middle school. His teacher, Ms. Eva Lution is in love with the theory of evolution, but his dad is a pastor and holds the Biblical view of special creation. David is really confused about who is right, and it’s up to the Creation Science Club to search out the truth!
My thoughts: I loved this book when I was in seventh grade. I thought it was funny, informative and interesting. I felt empowered to go tell people who believe in evolution why they were stupid, which is completely the wrong attitude. And that’s where my older self starts to have problems with the book. This book gives a very skewed impression of reality. You don’t just give one simple reason for why evolution doesn’t make sense and suddenly devout atheists want to believe you and become a Christian. Chances are, they’ve already heard this claim and are not concerned about it. Then, the book also makes evolutionary scientists look like extremely dumb people who have never looked at any evidence but just blindly believed it by faith (the picture often painted of creation scientists). As someone who had to learn the theory of evolution at school, a lot of it is simply observations of natural selection at work in the world today, something held by both evolutionary and creationary biologists. What we cannot observe nor prove is a single celled organism creating itself from a chemical soup, and evolving into all the diversity we see today. I think this book is unfair and uncharitable toward evolutionary biologists. However, when I was in grade seven, I just thought it was funny. I’m concerned that this book teaches kids to make fun of people who believe in evolution, and might get them so confident that their faith is crushed when they hear arguments for evolution they can not refute (even if I still believe they have issues).
This book is definitely not for atheists, evolutionists, or unbelievers in general. They will not appreciate it and will be (in my opinion) rightly offended at the way they are portrayed. While I do think there’s a lot of useful information in this book (particularly about Asperger’s syndrome and special creation and evolution both being untestable, unprovable theories), there are some witty comments in the book which I used to find funny (and some of them I still do), but I’m not sure if they are a good testimony for Christians to have. I also find the names of the characters who believe in evolution kind of funny, but again, I’m not sure if this is a good way to portray people who disagree with us. (For example, the head of the evolution university is Anita Moore-Power, the librarian at the evolution library is Miss Informed, etc.)
The creation-evolution debate is an important one, however it should not overtake the importance of sharing the gospel or cause us to attack the people on the other side.
My personal rating: 3/5 stars.
Link to blog: https://karinaschristianreads.wordpre...
Challenging Dr. E. V. Lution
Number of pages: 140
Genre: Children’s fiction
Series: Creation Science Club #2
Age recommendation: 10-14
Summary: Miss Eva Lution has been fired from her job as principal and honours science teacher at Darwin middle school, and her father Dr. E. V. Lution, PhD 3 times, is taking over. He wants nothing to do with David Avila and his creation fairytales. Can David stand up to this new giant?
My thoughts: I have some of the same issues with this book as the previous: it makes fun of people who believe in evolution, and gives a false impression of them and their beliefs. It portrays evolutionary scientists the way creation scientists are often portrayed: as dumb people who blindly believe something without checking the evidence for themselves. That is unfair, and gives children the wrong impression of how we should be treating others who disagree with us. The theory of evolution is oversimplified (to be fair, it may have changed somewhat since the book was written, I’m not sure), and the characters are portrayed in a less than favourable light (Ms. May Dupp is one of the evolutionists who doesn’t know anything and is completely flustered by eighth graders. Not that some of this can’t happen, I just don’t like how disrespectful it is). Also, while I completely believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God, it is not a science textbook and it should not be treated as one. I think a science teacher would be perfectly in their right to be upset with a student who uses the Bible as “scientific proof” in a report. However, the Bible can be used as a historical account, which can help when making assumptions about the past (which are necessary when studying historical science such as the creation of the earth and the life on it).
That being said, I think this book got a lot of things right. I think it was important to remember that both sides of the creation evolution debate have the same evidence and it’s a matter of which explanation of the evidence is better. I also like the parts where it talks about Darin and Abel’s Asperger syndrome - I find it really interesting to learn about how people are different. I really appreciated that Billy got to talk to Dr. E. V. Lution about God. I think that’s something that often gets lost in the evolution/creation debates: as important as it is, our main job here is to share the gospel and I’m glad that it wasn't forgotten in this book.
I really like the idea of the book: to show young kids there are answers to tough questions, and that the evidence does align with creation beliefs. Evolution is not an untouchable giant that explains life perfectly.
Overall, I enjoyed the story and the idea behind the book, but I’m a little concerned about the attitude it gives kids toward those who don't believe the same as us.
My personal rating: 2.5/5 stars.
Link to blog: https://karinaschristianreads.wordpre...
Challenging Ms. Eva Lution
Number of pages: 143
Genre: Children’s fiction
Series: Creation Science Club #1
Age recommendation: 10-14ish
Summary: David Avila is in seventh grade honours science class at Darwin Middle school. His teacher, Ms. Eva Lution is in love with the theory of evolution, but his dad is a pastor and holds the Biblical view of special creation. David is really confused about who is right, and it’s up to the Creation Science Club to search out the truth!
My thoughts: I loved this book when I was in seventh grade. I thought it was funny, informative and interesting. I felt empowered to go tell people who believe in evolution why they were stupid, which is completely the wrong attitude. And that’s where my older self starts to have problems with the book. This book gives a very skewed impression of reality. You don’t just give one simple reason for why evolution doesn’t make sense and suddenly devout atheists want to believe you and become a Christian. Chances are, they’ve already heard this claim and are not concerned about it. Then, the book also makes evolutionary scientists look like extremely dumb people who have never looked at any evidence but just blindly believed it by faith (the picture often painted of creation scientists). As someone who had to learn the theory of evolution at school, a lot of it is simply observations of natural selection at work in the world today, something held by both evolutionary and creationary biologists. What we cannot observe nor prove is a single celled organism creating itself from a chemical soup, and evolving into all the diversity we see today. I think this book is unfair and uncharitable toward evolutionary biologists. However, when I was in grade seven, I just thought it was funny. I’m concerned that this book teaches kids to make fun of people who believe in evolution, and might get them so confident that their faith is crushed when they hear arguments for evolution they can not refute (even if I still believe they have issues).
This book is definitely not for atheists, evolutionists, or unbelievers in general. They will not appreciate it and will be (in my opinion) rightly offended at the way they are portrayed. While I do think there’s a lot of useful information in this book (particularly about Asperger’s syndrome and special creation and evolution both being untestable, unprovable theories), there are some witty comments in the book which I used to find funny (and some of them I still do), but I’m not sure if they are a good testimony for Christians to have. I also find the names of the characters who believe in evolution kind of funny, but again, I’m not sure if this is a good way to portray people who disagree with us. (For example, the head of the evolution university is Anita Moore-Power, the librarian at the evolution library is Miss Informed, etc.)
The creation-evolution debate is an important one, however it should not overtake the importance of sharing the gospel or cause us to attack the people on the other side.
My personal rating: 3/5 stars.
Link to blog: https://karinaschristianreads.wordpre...
Challenging Dr. E. V. Lution
Number of pages: 140
Genre: Children’s fiction
Series: Creation Science Club #2
Age recommendation: 10-14
Summary: Miss Eva Lution has been fired from her job as principal and honours science teacher at Darwin middle school, and her father Dr. E. V. Lution, PhD 3 times, is taking over. He wants nothing to do with David Avila and his creation fairytales. Can David stand up to this new giant?
My thoughts: I have some of the same issues with this book as the previous: it makes fun of people who believe in evolution, and gives a false impression of them and their beliefs. It portrays evolutionary scientists the way creation scientists are often portrayed: as dumb people who blindly believe something without checking the evidence for themselves. That is unfair, and gives children the wrong impression of how we should be treating others who disagree with us. The theory of evolution is oversimplified (to be fair, it may have changed somewhat since the book was written, I’m not sure), and the characters are portrayed in a less than favourable light (Ms. May Dupp is one of the evolutionists who doesn’t know anything and is completely flustered by eighth graders. Not that some of this can’t happen, I just don’t like how disrespectful it is). Also, while I completely believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God, it is not a science textbook and it should not be treated as one. I think a science teacher would be perfectly in their right to be upset with a student who uses the Bible as “scientific proof” in a report. However, the Bible can be used as a historical account, which can help when making assumptions about the past (which are necessary when studying historical science such as the creation of the earth and the life on it).
That being said, I think this book got a lot of things right. I think it was important to remember that both sides of the creation evolution debate have the same evidence and it’s a matter of which explanation of the evidence is better. I also like the parts where it talks about Darin and Abel’s Asperger syndrome - I find it really interesting to learn about how people are different. I really appreciated that Billy got to talk to Dr. E. V. Lution about God. I think that’s something that often gets lost in the evolution/creation debates: as important as it is, our main job here is to share the gospel and I’m glad that it wasn't forgotten in this book.
I really like the idea of the book: to show young kids there are answers to tough questions, and that the evidence does align with creation beliefs. Evolution is not an untouchable giant that explains life perfectly.
Overall, I enjoyed the story and the idea behind the book, but I’m a little concerned about the attitude it gives kids toward those who don't believe the same as us.
My personal rating: 2.5/5 stars.
Link to blog: https://karinaschristianreads.wordpre...
September 13, 2017
As good as the first book! This book continues on from the Challenging Ms. Eva Lution book in David Avila's attempts to defend his position against his new teacher (who assures David that he will only get good marks if he bases his reports on the Hypothesis of Evolution).
David and his friends continue travelling around the world to collect facts that support Creationism.
Great book!
David and his friends continue travelling around the world to collect facts that support Creationism.
Great book!
February 5, 2022
A great, easy to read book. This book is about a young honours student, David, who has been asked to write multiple science reports by his evolutionary bias science teacher who insists that Evolution is fact and that David's Creationistic view is mere belief. David joins the Creation Science Club and discovers much evidence to refute the old school Evolutionary belief.
This is a really good book, if your looking for the Truth or for ways to defend the Truth against the gigantic Evolution Conspiracy.
Five star book!
This is a really good book, if your looking for the Truth or for ways to defend the Truth against the gigantic Evolution Conspiracy.
Five star book!
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