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Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 Posted: 3:02:55PM
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Some 80 years have passed since the
Scopes Monkey Trial sparked a heated battle on teaching
creation and evolution side-by-side in public schools.
The debate is still running, but according to some
professors, scientific developments have fundamentally
shifted the landscape by adding a relatively new theory
- intelligent design – to explain the origins of life.
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| Lee Strobel, award-winning
author of Case for Christ makes his
Case for a
Creator. | | |
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| The issue of an intelligent designer is
at the heart of society's worldview, how people live,
behave, and organize themselves, according to leading
Christian experts. However, while intelligent design
makes the case for a creator, it does not make the claim
that the creator is God.
One of the nation's
leading apologetics and best-selling authors, Lee
Strobel, wrote Case for a Creator in 2004 and
asserted that the latest scientific discovery is God.
A former atheist journalist for The Chicago
Tribune, Strobel converted when he saw his wife
change. He spent two years investigating the religion
using his journalistic and legal training and asked the
nation's leading Christian apologetics experts difficult
questions. Later this became the popular best-seller,
The Case for Christ.
Now a Christian
expert, himself, Strobel travels the country telling
audiences that there is hard evidence that suports the
Christian faith. This past weekend, he spoke at the
sold-out Dare 2 Dig Deeper teen apologetics conference
in Colorado Springs, Colo.
After having
written the book Case for a Creator, have you
found science able to prove that the Creator is the God
of the Bible?
Yes. My book states that from
the scientific evidence – cosmology, physics,
biochemistry, genetics, and consciousness – we can see
that the evidence points toward a creator. We can also
see some of the characteristics of that creator from the
logical implementation of the evidence. When we do that,
we see a portrait that matches the God of the Bible.
For instance, if you look at cosmology, the
study of the universe's origin, whatever begins to
exist, has a cause. Scientists believe that the universe
must have had a cause. The implication of that cause
must be very powerful, very intelligent, immaterial, and
beyond time because time was created when the universe
was created. So you see, there are some characteristics
there. And I think there are good arguments to be made
for one creator as opposed to many.
And so we
start to see some of the characteristics of this
creator, which matches the God of the Bible. And when we
look at a variety of the disciplines, you can paint a
bigger and an even more accurate and complete picture of
a God who cares for us, a God who has provided a habitat
for us. You go down the line of scientific disciplines
and you can see that they match the God of the Bible.
Now, you can't get to Jesus from there. That's a
historical question. Science can only take you so far.
Science can take us to the logical conclusion that there
is a creator who matches the God of the Bible. I think
we have to look at history, and history can tell us that
Jesus lived, he did claim to be the Son of God, and he
returned from the dead, and thus proved that he is the
Son of God. So we have to combine history and science
together to get a really strong foundation for
Christianity.
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