Lee Strobel

[Morphine Child]

While it is not my intent to spark too much debate and drama, the topic will inevitably go there. Recently I've been reading a few of Lee Strobel's books, "The Case for Christ", and "The Case for a Creator". I read most of "the Case for Christ" but it became kind of redundant after awhile and I started skipping stuff. Ditto for the creator book.

The books for me were hard to digest, and not because they were saying something I didn't want to hear, but because they were so damned lopsided. Strobel was an atheist that started interviewing people to basically persuade him that christianity is correct. Not to say that he is totally ignorant of the naturalist approach, but sometimes he was so easily convinced by one persons argument without hearing a rebuttal that I had to laugh. Strobel took biology in high school and college, and pulled up a bunch of topics for debate for the interviews. But did he ever read any books by the evolutionary theorists Richard Dawkins or Steven Jay Gould? Or any books by Stephan Hawking? Better yet, why didn't he
interview someone with their perspective of things after interviewing the theologians and then make up his own mind? The naturalist side was not even given a chance to state their claims or give their side of the story which I feel is rather misleading to the uninformed reader. The scientists in this book spend their whole time ripping on these guys and their colleagues, but their side of the story is presented in only "so and so said this...how do you feel about that?"

After reading the books, I started fact checking and looking for rebuttals. Sure enough, everything I was a little curious about had a counter argument to it. Now, I'm NOT saying that the counter arguments are right, but I'm saying that the ideas expressed by the interviewees in the book are quite open to debate. A person who is uninformed of both sides of the argument could be easily swayed because they don't know of any other ideas out there, which I think is somewhat misleading to a naive mind. Some would say biology text books are only giving one side of the argument, but biology text books aren't defending themselves against anything, they're simply presenting hard science.


Anyways, has anyone else read these books? I know bassjones has (I think you even recommended them to me). I'm curious as to other people's thoughts.