Personally, I find Strobel even more obnoxious than Dawkins.
Dawkins has his faults (I think this article in NY Times Review of Books does a good job explaining it:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19775, and Daniel Dennet replies and the author replies back. Quite informative.)
Strobel... He's an apologist. He doesn't really deal with his critics or criticism of his ideas very well at all. It's about 2 inches from being anti-intellectual.
As far as I'm concerned, at least, I don't think either side of this debate has particularly good public intellectuals.
Of course... there aren't many in the way of public intellectuals these days as is. We've pundits and polemics in spades.... little else.