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The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Strobel
Publisher: Zondervan
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0310240506
Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
EAN: 9780310240501
ASIN: 0310240506
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Are Christianity and science incompatible? If there is a God, is he only an impersonal starter force? An introductory high school biology class first propelled Lee Strobel toward a life of atheism. God and science, he reasoned, were mutually exclusive. When the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune converted to Christianity, he decided to investigate the science he had once accepted as truth. Did science point toward or away from God? As Strobel interviews a variety of scientists on everything from debunking evolutionary icons to the implications of the Big Bang to the existence of the human soul, he builds his case: scientific evidence points toward Intelligent Design. Although the discussion often veers into the academic, Strobel works hard to make it accessible to those without scientific training. Throughout the book, he salts interview transcript information with interesting personal stories of his own spiritual and scientific quest for knowledge, as well as sometimes over-detailed descriptions of the actual interviews (right down to the type of beverages consumed). Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading on particular issues of science and faith. Strobel concludes that, when correctly interpreted, science and biblical teaching support each other. He quotes physicist Paul Davies, "…science offers a surer path to God than religion." Open-minded readers will find that this book, and its questions for reflection and group study, invites conversation and investigation.--Cindy Crosby
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Lee Strobel investigates the latest scientific discoveries to see whether they form a solid basis for believing in God.
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 The Case for a Creator October 6, 2008
Very informative, honest review. Any one seeking for the truth tis is a must read.
 Strobel makes a good, if not airtight, case for a Creator September 26, 2008
The only knock on the book is that he didn't present anyone who disagreed with him. But I guess he didn't need to, since that group encompasses most scientists. What he does show is that there are legitimate, highly educated scientists who do not accept the traditional model forced upon us by our increasingly liberal and Godless society. Let's face it, there is little definitive proof on either side (evolutionists will argue, but there isn't). Creation was accepted in America long before Darwin and until Darwinists fill in a lot of holes with their theory, why should they lay claim to being the "right" side until they can answer a lot of questions. Strobel does successfully play devil's advocate in the book, often bringing up objections that evolutionists have to the ideas presented. WHile the book can not certainly answer the question it poses, it can give the reader an idea that there are great academic minds still out there who are not afraid to refuse to bow down at the altar of "SCIENCE" as if it is a god itself.
 Blind leading the blind September 22, 2008
This book should be thrown in the trash can. A creationist fellow member at church asked me to read this book because he said it was excellent. After a couple of years I am still trying to slog through it. The book has so many problems with it I can't cover but a fraction of them. Let me say up front that I believe very much in a Creator myself but the author of this book is so confused that he attackes anything that hints at disagreeing with the snow job he wishes his readership to swallow. I do read a lot and the books I consider to be good are those that present real evidence. Their authors can try to interpret the facts for me all they want, but good books present facts that I can evaluate for myself.
The author of this book presents no evidence for his views. And because there is lots of evidence counter to his views, he readily attacks facts that threaten the beliefs that he wishes to bestow on his naive readership.
This book is about a man who admits to a life of sinful living and convinces us that his desire to believe in evolution is based solely on convincing himself that if there is no god then he cannot be held accountable for his immoral life style. This man had no desire to search for the truth so he did not find it. Instead, he became very self righteous to save his own eternal life and now claims that you have to be an atheist to believe in evolution. He does not think for himself (and has no way of judging evidence for himself) so he uses a number of carefully selected creationists to enforce what he wants his readership to believe. Strobel is also very careful to select only atheists to represent the pro-evolution side because he wants his readers to believe that you have to give up your belief in God to think that God used evolution in his creation work. The "experts" he selects to interview are all creationists with beliefs like his own and he expects us to believe evertying they say by giving us a long list of their credentials. But he says that all of them (as far as I have read) are now holding a position in some creationist institution. All of his "experts" appear to have an axe to grind and seem embittered because of being passed over somehow in life for their twisted religeous views.
The author of this book uses a number of sinister tactics to try to trick the reader into thinking that a legitimate search for truth can never be anything but the human sinner's desire to justify living in sin. I am convinced that this is because he never had the sincere desire to know the truth himself. There are many people who think that no-one has pure and innocent thoughts just because they have few or none themselves. One particularly blatant tactic he takes is his attack on Haeckel's embryos. Strobel had the gall to imply that Ernst Haeckel had they only set of chicken embyos in the world like they were some original Rosetta stone. Any bright reader will realize that chicken embryos are easy for anyone to obtain and they make many millions more every day. He goes on to try to lead the reader to believe in some conspiracy theory that, since Haeckel was the only one who had access to chicken embryos that he was able to get away with lying about what he saw under the microscope. Since no-one else could verify his explanations because they couldn't possibly repeat his observations, that he was some-how a sinister man who wanted to dupe the public. What Stobel doesn't want his readers to know is that chicken embryos are very common and you can order as many as you want from biological supply houses and look at them for yourselves. If you don't trust the biological supply houses you can even prepare them youself. Stobel is gambelling that his readers are too lazy to do the checking for themselves. But what if the chickens themselves were in on the conspiracy? I took a class in embryology and I have seen chicken embryos for myself and, yes, they do indeed have remnants of the ancestral gill arches in their circulatory systems early in development. It is amazing how it then goes away at a stage about where the embry ceases to look like a fish (which it does by the way).
Let me put in my own 2 cents worth. The creationist "engineer" view of God does not seem to be very consistent with Jesus's parables that talk about the nature of God. God is often compared to a farmer, not an engineer, who casts the seeds out into the field and just harvests the valuable part of the crop that produces something useful. This is much like the Big Bang when God cast the energy and matter out into the universe to let what may grown. Some planets became a good place for life to evolve. It was like the seed that was cast upon good soil. Other planets did not provide a good place for life to evolve. This was like seed cast upon dry ground or in the rocks. Evolution is very compatible with the view that Jesus gives us of God in the new testament. It is ashame that Strobel does not think for himself and, instead, relies on embittered people to think for him. Otherwise, he might have found peace with evolution a long time ago. But then he might not have sold many of his books. I don't think his motives are any more pure than when he was leading another life of sin that he claims all evolutionists are now living.
the case for a creator September 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I felt somewhat obligated to at least look at one book that supports the "Intelligent Design" argument. With all the attention that writers like biologist Richard Dawkins and atheist Michel Ofray have seen of late, I thought I should at least look at one of their antagonists to see if there were any cogent arguments or good science to refute Dawkins and Ofray. What an eye opener this venture provided. Lee Strobel's tome on Creationism was insulting to anyone of modest intelligence. Most, if not all of his interviews were with Christian believers and the logic expressed by these alleged scientific experts would shame even a first year college student. If ever there was an argument to keep "Intelligent Design" out of our public schools, Strobel's screed and complete lack of any testable proof is an excellent reason. It should certainly rank as the poster child for putting books by Dawkins and Onfray into the public school systems along with Darwin. "The Case For A Creator" is merely a collection of straw man arguments taken apart with extremely bad logic and commentary. For a great look at the world of monotheistic religeons, look to Michel Onfray's "Atheist Manifesto" and for great science on evolution, the Dawkins books are a must. Both books are well written. Man, I've got a real headache.
Bob
Refreshing veiw August 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was nice to see a different view point of how creation could have occurred. This book does not try to convince you that Buddha, Yahweh, or Krishna is the force behind our existence. however they have a good argument that simple chance is not viable with our current scientific evidence.
I really enjoyed it. The scientific facts are very interesting and explained very well.
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