The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Lee Strobel is a pompous ass-hat! The interview subjects of his book are a veritable who's who of the ID movement. Further, Strobel doesn't even have the professional decency to interview anyone from the other side of any topic he discussed. I'm sure the true believer will readily agree with the author's numerous logical fallacies and their irrational conclusions but I can't take such one-sided "reporting" seriously.

I was honestly hoping to read a compelling book that would give me room to pause but most of what was written in this book was garbage. I especially disliked Strobel's attempts to put himself in the skeptic's shoes during interviews. Rather than having the real experts discuss these issues, the author chose to pretend that show more his friends were qualified while he took on the straw-man role of the would-be skeptic. show less

I don't like this book at all. Strobel relies so heavily on "straw man" arguments that one begins to suspect that real objections to creationism just may have some actual merit. I also do not like that all of the "leading scientists" he interviews are Christians I have never heard of. There is no discussion of the "intelligent design" movement in secular science. There is no purely secular source that is analyzed to show the plausibility of theistic creation (they do exist). A weak book that, in my opinion, hurts the case for a Creator for any skeptics that may read it.

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 show more 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. show less

This is the third Strobel "Case" book I've read, and I was definitely less impressed with this one than his previous two books.
More so than in his other books, in this one I was particularly troubled with the fact that he only interviews people who are going to give him the answers he wants. He needs to interview atheists!

I listened to this book and the scientific language, which is really unavoidable in a book on this topic, often let mind wander.
However I loved it because I found myself praising an Awesome God. The chapters on astronomy and micro biology just blew me away! The absolute wonder of the detail that God puts into His creations (us Included) is mind blowing!
I recommend this book. I didn't need convinced on Creation, but it sure gave me a reason to praise Him more!

This book was a harder read than I thought it would be--and some of the subjects it contains are ones I've read about previously. I found the scientists's arguments to be well reasoned out and logical, but in many cases I had to take breaks to digest what I'd read because there was so much information packed into each chapter!

I discussed the contents and questions of this book with a friend who also enjoyed it.

Lee Strobel's book got really big when I was in college and he makes a really good argument for why the Creationism theory isn't so far-fetched. I really love his stuff - he looks at everything through the lens of a journalist, someone who is investigating the situation and trying to come to conclusions.