The Case For a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Strobel interviews Stephen Meyer, a Cambridge-educated expert in the philosophy of science. The chapter opens with a 1985 conference that Meyer attended as a young scholar in geophysics—already a Christian thanks to his philosophical journey, but unsure about the relationship between science and faith. At the conference, he was astounded to see some of the most respected cosmologists and physicists in the world taking the side of theism as the best explanation for natural systems. This set him on a renewed academic journey into the philosophy of science, leading to him becoming one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. 

Strobel’s interview first touches on the question of the interrelationship between science and faith, wherein Meyer sees a necessary overlap. While science cannot answer every question that religion might raise, it can point to whether the verifiable truth-claims of a religion are plausible or not. Meyer provides six major sets of scientific evidence that show, in his view, that the creation of the world by an intelligent designer is the inference that best fits the data. First, there is the fact that general relativity and the Big Bang theory both point toward an instantaneous origin of the universe from a single point, a view that neatly matches the biblical view of creation ex nihilo (that is, out of nothing).