Course Overview:

The number of atheists and religious “nones” is on the rise. Are you ready to give them a compelling reason to believe God exists? Evidence for God will equip you to understand, explain, and defend this foundational element of our Catholic faith.
Course Overview:

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Evidence for God contains more than forty short, easy-to-watch video segments, so you can study at your own pace.

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Topics covered in this course:

Before you can start helping others, you need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to share the truth with gentleness and reverence. Here's some of what Trent Horn covers in this course:

  • Aquinas’s argument from motion

  • The kalam cosmological argument

  • Arguments from design and morality

  • Arguments from reason and consciousness

  • Arguments from miracles, including Christ’s resurrection

  • Divine simplicity

  • Necessity and infinity

  • Eternity and immateriality

  • Omniscience and omnipotence

  • How to answer the most common atheist arguments

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What does the Catholic Church teach about the concept of God? Is he a being that exists alongside other beings in the physical universe? Trent Horn explains.


Meet your Instructor

  • Trent Horn

    Instructor

    Trent Horn

    After his conversion to the Catholic faith, Trent Horn earned master’s degrees in the fields of theology, philosophy, and bioethics. He serves as a staff apologist for Catholic Answers, where he specializes in teaching Catholics to graciously and persuasively engage those who disagree with them.

Course curriculum

  • 1
    Evidence for God
    • Evidence for God: Introduction
    • Evidence for God Study Guide
    • Lesson 1: Faith and Reason
    • Quiz: Faith and Reason
    • Lesson 2: Faith and Science
    • Quiz: Faith and Science
    • Lesson 3: Religion and Spirituality
    • Quiz: Religion and Spirituality
    • Lesson 4: Theism and Atheism
    • Quiz: Theism and Atheism
    • Lesson 5: The Concept of God
    • Quiz: The Concept of God
    • Lesson 6: St. Anselm's Ontological Argument
    • Quiz: St. Anselm's Ontological Argument
    • Lesson 7: Alvin Plantinga's Ontological Argument
    • Quiz: Alvin Plantinga's Ontological Argument
    • Lesson 8: St. Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways
    • Quiz: St. Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways
    • Lesson 9: The Argument from Motion
    • Quiz: The Argument from Motion
    • Lesson 10: The Contingency Argument I
    • Quiz: The Contingency Argument I
    • Lesson 11: The Contingency Argument II
    • Quiz: The Contingency Argument II
    • Lesson 12: The Contingency Argument III
    • Quiz: The Contingency Argument III
    • Lesson 13: The Kalam Argument
    • Quiz: The Kalam Argument
    • Lesson 14: Cosmological Arguments and Quantum Physics
    • Quiz: Cosmological Arguments and Quantum Physics
    • Lesson 15: The Kalam Argument and Infinity
    • Quiz: The Kalam Argument and Infinity
    • Lesson 16: The Kalam Argument and the Nature of Time
    • Quiz: The Kalam Argument and the Nature of Time
    • Lesson 17: The Kalam Argument and Causal Finitism
    • Quiz: The Kalam Argument and Causal Finitism
    • Lesson 18: Kalam and the First Cause
    • Quiz: Kalam and the First Cause
    • Lesson 19: Arguments from Design
    • Quiz: Arguments from Design
    • Lesson 20: The Fine-Tuning Argument I
    • Quiz: The Fine-tuning Argument I
    • Lesson 21: The Fine-Tuning Argument II
    • Quiz: The Fine-tuning Argument II
    • Lesson 22: Fine-Tuning Argument III
    • Quiz: The Fine-tuning Argument III
    • Lesson 23: The Moral Argument I
    • Quiz: The Moral Argument I
    • Lesson 24: The Moral Argument II
    • Quiz: The Moral Argument II
    • Lesson 25: The Moral Argument III
    • Quiz: The Moral Argument III
    • Lesson 26: The Moral Argument IV
    • Quiz: The Moral Argument IV
    • Lesson 27: Arguments from Reason
    • Quiz: Arguments from Reason
    • Lesson 28: The Argument from Consciousness
    • Quiz: The Argument from Consciousness
    • Lesson 29: The Argument from Desire
    • Quiz: The Argument from Desire
    • Lesson 30: The Argument from Miracles
    • Quiz: The Argument from Miracles
    • Lesson 31: The Resurrection of Christ I
    • Quiz: The Resurrection of Christ I
    • Lesson 32: The Resurrection of Christ II
    • Quiz: The Resurrection of Christ II
    • Lesson 33: Divine Attributes - Simplicity
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Simplicity
    • Lesson 34: Divine Attributes - Oneness
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Oneness
    • Lesson 35: Divine Attributes - Immutability
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Immutability
    • Lesson 36: Divine Attributes - Immateriality
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Immateriality
    • Lesson 37: Divine Attributes - Eternity
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Eternity
    • Lesson 38: Divine Attributes: Omniscience
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Omniscience
    • Lesson 39: Divine Attributes - Omnipotence
    • Quiz: Divine Attributes - Omnipotence
    • Lesson 40: Answering Atheist Slogans
    • Quiz: Answering Atheist Slogans
    • Lesson 41: The Logical Problem of Evil I
    • Quiz: The Logical Problem of Evil I
    • Lesson 42: The Logical Problem of Evil II
    • Quiz: The Logical problem of Evil II
    • Lesson 43: The Evidential Problem of Evil I
    • Quiz: The Evidential Problem of Evil I
    • Lesson 44: The Evidential Problem of Evil II
    • Quiz: The Evidential Problem of Evil II
    • Lesson 45: The Personal Problem of Evil
    • Quiz: The Personal Problem of Evil
    • Lesson 46: Arguments from Divine Hiddenness
    • Quiz: Arguments from Divine Hiddenness
    • Lesson 47: Pascal’s Wager
    • Quiz: Pascal's Wager