Special thanks to Zondervan for providing a review copy of this book.
The Case for a Creator Book Details:
Based on the bestseller The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel, along with Jane Vogel, gives students the evidence they need to point to a Creator.
When Lee Strobel was a high school freshman, science convinced him that God didn’t exist. Since then, however, incredible scientific discoveries have not only helped restore Lee’s faith, but have strengthened it.
In this student edition of the bestselling The Case for a Creator, Strobel encourages teens to challenge the “facts” that say there is no God and to weigh the evidence for themselves. Readers will be astonished by what some of today’s most respected experts have to say about the birth of the universe, Darwinism, DNA research, and the astounding fine-tuning of the cosmos. Ultimately, they must consider the question: Could it be that the universe looks designed … because it is?
About the Authors:
Lee Strobel (www.LeeStrobel.com), with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and a spiritual skeptic until 1981. His books include four Gold Medallion winners and the 2005 Christian Book of the Year (coauthored with Garry Poole). He and his wife live in Colorado.
Jane Vogel, a writer who has been involved in youth ministry for over twenty years, wrote The Case for Christ Student Edition and The Case for Faith Student Edition with Lee Strobel. She lives with her husband, Steve, and their two children in Winfield, Illinois.
Book Details:
Series: Case for … Series for Students
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Zondervan; Student edition (June 24, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310745837
ISBN-13: 978-0310745839
Retail Price: $9.99
Electronic Version also available
My Thoughts:
The Case for a Creator begins back in Lee Strobel’s high school days when a science class gives him the final little nudge he needed to walk away from his faith. Later on, as a young, married journalist, he finds himself looking at whether it was possible that God was real and that He was the Creator of the universe. In typical journalist fashion, he takes a methodical, detailed look into science to see if science and God can both be true.
He looks at 4 main scientific areas: Cosmology, Physics, Biochemistry, and Biological information. While a lot of the information in this book is really good, he really has gone the route of Intelligent Design rather than Creation by God. He has taken from evolution (millions of years and Big Bang) and used that as the basis for his study. To me, this makes his study flawed as he never looked outside of his belief that evolution – at least to some degree – is true. Lee Strobel holds the view of an old earth Creationists and believes in the evolutionary theory of the Big Bang. Depending on your belief system, this may or may not be okay for you or your child.
Because of this, I have a hard time recommending this book to a student who is still trying to figure things out for him/herself. It would be okay for a student that has more knowledge of evolution vs creation as it has a good deal of interesting information about how science and God are not mutually exclusive.
