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THE
CASE
FOR A
CREATOR
A Journalist Investigates Scientific
Evidence That Points Toward God
LEE STROBEL
Copyright
The Case for a Creator
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Copyright © 2004 by Lee Strobel
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Interior design by Michelle Espinoza
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CONTENTS
Resources by Lee Strobel
Copyright
Chapter 1
White-Coated Scientists Versus Black-Robed Preachers
Chapter 2
The Images of Evolution
Chapter 3
Doubts about Darwinism
An interview with Jonathan Wells
Chapter 4
Where Science Meets Faith
An interview with Stephen C. Meyer
Chapter 5
The Evidence of Cosmology: Beginning with a Bang
An interview with William Lane Craig
Chapter 6
The Evidence of Physics:
The Cosmos on a Razor’s Edge
An interview with Robin Collins
Chapter 7
The Evidence of Astronomy: The Privileged Planet
An interview with Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Wesley Richards
Chapter 8
The Evidence of Biochemistry:
The Complexity of Molecular Machines
An interview with Michael J. Behe
Chapter 9
The Evidence of Biological Information:
The Challenge of DNA and the Origin of Life An interview with Stephen C. Meyer
Chapter 10
The Evidence of Consciousness:
The Enigma of the Mind
An interview with J. P. Moreland
Chapter 11
The Cumulative Case for a Creator
Appendix: A Summary of the Case for Christ
Deliberations: Questions for Reflection or Group Study
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
1
WHITE-COATED SCIENTISTS VERSUS BLACK-ROBED PREACHERS
The deadline was looming for the “Green Streak,” the afternoon edition of the Chicago Tribune, and the frenzied atmosphere in the newsroom was carbonated with activity. Teletypes clattered behind Plexiglas partitions. Copy boys darted from desk to desk. Reporters hunched over their typewriters in intense concentration. Editors barked into telephones. On the wall, a huge clock counted down the minutes.
A copy boy hustled into the cavernous room and tossed three copies of the Chicago Daily News, hot off the presses, onto the middle of the city desk. Assistant city editors lunged at them and hungrily scanned the front page to see if the competition had beaten them on anything. One of them let out a grunt. In one motion, he ripped out an article and then pivoted, waving it in the face of a reporter who had made the mistake of hovering too closely.
“Recover this!” he demanded.