His work is a dangerous potpourri / blend of ideas. I go as far as to say that it is more dangerous than what Darwin has written or said, because it pretends to endorse the Bible while it plainly contradicts the Creation Account. His bizarre version of the creation account implies billion-fold death before Adam.
While Strobel generously allows God to have come into action with creation day 1, he assumes a passive role of a spectator who had to wait until the big bang had made Him the earth and other collisions formed the moon and so on.
This is heretical. The Bible clearly states that God laid the foundation of the Earth, and the act of 'laying' is contrary to watch an accident happening. And it says that He created bodies like the moon.
While Strobel enlightens us with a good defense of special creation (at least in minor sense), he appears to have been intimated by his cuma laude friends. Why is he not asking how they can be certain about the materials the sun consists of, or why it should be billions of years old? Why did he not confront them with Bible verses that state that God laid the foundation of the earth and created the sun?
It is hypocrisy to have an investigative character and boldness when it comes to opposing certain lies of the more obvious enemies of God, but to leave this same character at the door when meeting with his special friends of worldly prestige.
Another fatal point is the blatant deception regarding the Cambrian explosion. When he brought this topic up in the book, it pretty much sounds like 5500 BC (Adam) or 3300 BC (Noah's Flood), when all the animals suddenly appeared at the same time. It is then a huge surprise to read at the end of the book and after having been left with this totally false impression, that this explosion in his reality lastet 5 million years and took place 530 million years ago. He tries then in a silly way to compare this to 5 minutes of a 24hrs day (which would make 1440 million years!!!), in order to water down the obviously close similarity to the concept of evolution. Who cares if 5 millions or a couple of million years more. Both concepts are outmost heretical when compared with the Word implying 6 ordinary days.
Don't get me wrong, Mr. Strobel certainly makes a very good overall case for Christianity and defends it well in many aspects.
But both the book and movie should not have reached the audience of the average churchgoer, and rather remained within academic circles. I am certain that it is not in the will of God that someone spends all that time for going through such intellectual banter, no matter how sophisticated and meaningful it might be in parts. That time could be much better used to serve the church in a practical way, than being drawn in a parallel world of intellectual prestige and academics while endlessly listening to their oh-so-impressive credentials.
Humans cannot be convinced by truth and arguments alone, they are convinced by truth combined with example and passion. And most importantly and Strobel does not even see this, it is the Lord who needs to take away a veil in order for us to see those truths. No matter how smart and right and good many of his arguments might be, if he shows no heart to at least pray and call the viewer to pray for those veils be taken away, then his work is useless.