The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That… (2004)

'My road to atheism was paved by science . . . But, ironically, so was my later journey to God.' ---Lee Strobel During his academic years, Lee Strobel became convinced that God was outmoded, a belief that colored his ensuing career as an award-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune. Science had made the idea of a Creator irrelevant---or so Strobel thought. But today science is pointing in a different direction. In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason. Has science discovered God? At the very least, it's giving faith an immense boost as new findings emerge about the incredible complexity of our universe. Join Strobel as he reexamines the theories that once led him away from God. Through his compelling and highly readable account, you'll encounter the mind-stretching discoveries from cosmology, cellular biology, DNA research, astronomy, physics, and human consciousness that present astonishing evidence in The Case for a Creator.

作者在耶魯攻讀法律年代即深信科學已將上帝打入冷宮，後任芝加哥論壇報資深記者，屢獲新聞獎，這個觀念更其​深入。 誰知，現代科學有了逆轉，最新的眾多研究越來越趨向支持宇宙是智慧的超絕設計的巨構。科學搜集的證​據和確切的推理，已教達爾文主義立不住腳。科學家發現我們居住的宇宙的複雜性與萬端變化及其奧妙，使我們對​上帝有了重新且堅定的發現。作者訪問了在分子生物學，基因研究，天文，物理學領域中的權威學者，記錄下了叫​人大開眼界新發現，新證據，寫下這本一出版便登上暢銷榜的書。使他能夠說：“科學給我鋪了走向無神論的路，​可是說來也難相信，也是科學領我走上相信上帝的旅程。”​

Lent this book before I had finished reading it. It never came back...back on my wishlist!

I’ve read Lee’s other books, A Case for Faith and A Case for Christ, and this follows along the same vein as those. Lee interviews numerous experts in their respective fields about subjects and how the facts eventually lead to a case for a Creator. In this book we have topics about Evolution, Astronomy, The Big Bang, Biochemistry, DNA, and much more. A lot of interesting topics and as usual, Lee writes in a very accessible format and is easy and quick to read, not typical of non-fiction books I’ve read lately so I did enjoy this one greatly.

In my case, as a Christian, I already hold much of the same beliefs as Lee so I didn’t need much convincing. It was nice to see how science actually points to what I already believe. Would this book have convinced me if I was an avowed atheist? Not likely, but if I had an open mind, and was interested in seeing an opposing viewpoint, this may have been a nice first step in a journey to a new belief system. ( )

Presents evidence that the world was created and designed by a higher power, describing the findings in a variety of fields, including biology, physics, astronomy, and cosmology, that point to the existence of a greater power and higher order that pervades nature.