Everything on this page is written by UECF.NET as background for readers new to the book. It is our own introductory material, not a quotation or paraphrase of any passage from The Case for a Creator. The printed book remains the place to hear Lee Strobel in his own words.
Who is Lee Strobel?
Lee Strobel (born 25 January 1952) is an American author, journalist, and Christian apologist. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School. For more than a decade he worked as a legal editor at the Chicago Tribune, where he investigated stories with the same forensic standards he later applied to Christianity. He described himself as an atheist through much of that period until a personal crisis led his wife, Leslie, to faith in Christ and prompted him to investigate the evidence for himself.
Strobel's conversion and subsequent ministry have focused on making scholarly apologetics accessible to ordinary readers. He has written numerous books in the "Case for…" series — including The Case for Christ (1998), The Case for a Creator (2004), and The Case for Faith (2000) — produced video curricula, and served in teaching and pastoral roles. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential popular apologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
What is The Case for a Creator about?
Subtitled A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, the book applies Strobel's interview method to science and faith. He speaks with biologists, philosophers, physicists, astronomers, and other scholars who argue that recent discoveries in cosmology, fine-tuning, biochemistry, DNA, and consciousness support intelligent design and theism. Strobel also revisits textbook presentations of evolution and Darwinism. The 2004 Zondervan edition contains twelve chapters and an appendix summarizing The Case for Christ.
The Internet Archive catalogue record for the title is archive.org/details/caseforcreatorjo0000stro_i5o6. That record lists the 2004 Zondervan edition (ISBN 978-0-310-242093). The item is access-restricted in the Internet Archive's print-disabled collection. UECF.NET has not borrowed, scanned, bypassed access controls, or reproduced the book. We have used publicly available bibliographic facts — title, author, publisher, table of contents — to key an original study guide to the printed work.
Major themes of this study companion
Across the twelve chapter pages you will meet threads including evolution and Darwinism, intelligent design, cosmology and the Big Bang, fine-tuning in physics, Earth's habitability, molecular machines, biological information, consciousness, and the cumulative case for a Creator. UECF.NET summaries distinguish what Strobel and his interviewees argue from what mainstream scientific consensus holds where they differ. None of the explanatory prose is Strobel's wording. It is original teaching written to send you back to Scripture, to honest inquiry, and to the book itself.
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