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    The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition: Investigating the Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
    The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition: Investigating the Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
    The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition: Investigating the Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
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    The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition: Investigating the Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

    By Lee Strobel and Garry D. Poole

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    "My road to atheism was paved by science...ironically, so was my later journey to God."

    Journalist and award-winning author of The Case for Christ Lee Strobel examines the idea that science isn't the enemy of faith, but that it provides a solid foundation for belief in God. New scientific discoveries point to the incredible complexity of our universe, a complexity best explained by the existence of a Creator.

    This six-session video study (DVD/digital video sold separately) invites participants to encounter the evidence of a Creator. Join Strobel in reexamining the theories that once led him away from God. Pastors, small group leaders, and individuals seeking resources that answer tough questions about the existence of God and the claims of rationality will find compelling answers in The Case for a Creator study, investigating probing questions like:

    • Where do science and faith overlap or agree?
    • As a form of knowledge, what are the weaknesses of science and rationality?
    • How much can I depend on science while still have a thriving faith?
    • Is faith in God ever based on rationality?

    Sessions include:

    1. Science and God
    2. Doubts about Darwinism
    3. The Evidence of Cosmology
    4. The Fine-tuning of the Universe
    5. The Evidence of Biochemistry
    6. The DNA and the Origin of Life

    Designed for use with the Case for a Creator Revised Video Study 9780310699606 (sold separately).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 23, 2013
    ISBN9780310699620
    The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition: Investigating the Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
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    Lee Strobel

    Lee Strobel, former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Lee earned a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Law degree. He was a journalist for fourteen years at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International. Lee also taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University. A former atheist, he served as a teaching pastor at three of America’s largest churches. Lee and his wife, Leslie, have been married for more than fifty years and live in Texas. Their daughter, Alison, and son, Kyle, are also authors. Website: www.leestrobel.com

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      The Case for a Creator Bible Study Guide Revised Edition - Lee Strobel

      SESSION 1

      Science and God

      I was convinced that science and faith were at odds — and that science definitely had the edge in the credibility department . . . And rather than facing an unyielding despair that’s implicit in a world without God, I reveled in my newly achieved freedom from God’s moral strictures. For me, living without God meant living 100 percent for myself. Freed from someday being held accountable for my actions, I felt unleashed to pursue personal happiness and pleasure at all costs . . . As a journalist, I was unshackled to compete without always having to abide by those pesky rules of ethics and morality. I would let nothing, and certainly nobody, stand between me and my ambitions.

      Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator

      Read This!

      If possible, read the following book content in preparation for your group meeting: The Case for a Creator, chapter 4: Where Science Meets Faith, or The Case for a Creator Student Edition, chapter 1: Science vs. God? Otherwise, read it as follow-up.

      Watch This!

      Video Teaching Segment

      Space is provided to take notes on anything that stands out to you.

      [Your Notes]

      Ironically, to say that science is the only begetter of truth is self-contradicting, because that statement in itself cannot be tested by scientific method. It’s a self-defeating philosophical assumption.

      — Stephen C. Meyer

      Discuss This!

      1. How much confidence do you put in science as a source of truth? How did you develop the level of trust (or lack thereof) you currently have?

      [Your Response]

      THINK ABOUT THIS!

      Some people claim that we live in a technological culture where science trumps all other forms of knowledge. Only science is rational; only science achieves truth. Everything else is mere belief and opinion. If something cannot be qualified or tested by the scientific method, then it cannot be true or rational. Science represents the empirical, the hard facts, and the experimentally proven. Everything else can be dismissed as being mere opinion, superstition — and mindless faith.

      2. To what degree do you believe that only science is rational and everything else is mere opinion, superstition, or mindless faith?

      [Your Response]

      It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world was much more complicated than can be explained by science.

      — Cosmologist Allan Sandage

      3. Has scientific progress made God unnecessary? Why or why not?

      [Your Response]

      THINK ABOUT THIS!

      The whole point of faith is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

      Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic magazine

      Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

      Atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell

      Proof is only applicable to very rarefied areas of philosophy and mathematics . . . For the most part we are driven to acting on good evidence, without the luxury of proof. There is good evidence of the link between cause and effect. There is good evidence that the sun will rise tomorrow. There is good reason to believe that I am the same man as I was ten years ago. There is good reason to believe my mother loves me and is not just fattening me up for the moment when she will pop arsenic into my tea. And there is good reason to believe in God. Very good reason. Not conclusive proof, but very good reason just the same . . . I believe it is much harder to reject the existence of a supreme being than accept it.

      Michael Green, Faith for the Non-Religious

      You can’t absolutely prove — or disprove — the existence of God.

      Science philosopher Stephen C. Meyer

      4. To what extent do you think it is possible to prove — or disprove — the existence of God? In terms of your own investigation, what level of evidence (or proof) would be sufficient for you to believe or disbelieve the existence of God? How likely is it that there would ever be enough evidence to eliminate your doubts (one way or

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