Think clearly about the most important question ever asked
A rigorous, philosophically grounded examination of the strongest arguments on every side — so you can stop reacting to the God question and start reasoning through it.

Every argument in this course gets its strongest reading before it gets evaluated — because anything less isn't philosophy, it's point-scoring.
— Theoria

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Reconstruct and evaluate the major classical arguments for God's existence — cosmological, teleological, ontological, moral, and contingency — in their strongest philosophical forms.
- Analyze the principal objections to belief in God, including the problem of evil, divine hiddenness, and naturalism, distinguishing philosophical arguments from emotional reactions and empirical claims.
- Apply critical thinking tools — identifying logical fallacies, defining key terms, distinguishing evidence from assertion — to real debates about God, science, and religion.
- Explain how modern scientific discoveries (the origin of the universe, fine-tuning, consciousness) relate to — but do not settle — the philosophical question of God's existence.
- Articulate a reasoned, well-structured position on the existence of God that engages competing worldviews with intellectual honesty and charitable representation.
- Engage diverse perspectives — from Aquinas and Plantinga to Hume and contemporary skeptics — with the historical and philosophical context needed to understand why they matter.
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6 modules · 30 lessons

Thinking Clearly About God: Philosophy, Reason, and the Big Question
Establishes the intellectual framework — key terms, disciplines, and reasoning tools — students need to engage the God question rigorously and charitably.
- 1.1Why This Question Still MattersIncluded
- 1.2The Disciplines in Dialogue: Philosophy, Theology, Science, and HistoryIncluded
- 1.3Tools of the Trade: Logic, Arguments, and Burden of ProofIncluded
- 1.4Defining the Terms: God, Theism, Atheism, and Everything In BetweenIncluded
- 1.5Recognizing Bad Reasoning: Logical Fallacies in the God DebateIncluded
Arguments for God's Existence: The Classical Case
Examines the major philosophical arguments for God's existence in their strongest forms, tracing their development from ancient and medieval thinkers to contemporary defenders.
- 2.1The Cosmological Argument: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?Included
- 2.2The Kalam Argument: The Universe Had a BeginningIncluded
- 2.3The Teleological Argument: Design, Order, and PurposeIncluded
- 2.4The Moral Argument: Objective Morality and Its SourceIncluded
- 2.5The Ontological Argument: Can God's Existence Be Proven Logically?Included
- 2.6The Contingency Argument and Arguments from Consciousness and ReasonIncluded
Science, the Universe, and the God Question
Explores how discoveries in cosmology, biology, and physics relate to — without settling — the philosophical question of God's existence.
- 3.1The Origin of the Universe: Big Bang, Cosmology, and What Science ShowsIncluded
- 3.2Fine-Tuning: A Cosmic Accident or a Calculated Universe?Included
- 3.3Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Common MisconceptionsIncluded
- 3.4Consciousness and the Hard Problem: Can Matter Explain the Mind?Included
- 3.5Science and Faith: Conflict, Dialogue, or Integration?Included
Objections to Belief in God: The Case Against
Presents the strongest philosophical, scientific, and experiential objections to God's existence with fairness and analytical rigor.
- 4.1The Problem of Evil: Suffering and the God of LoveIncluded
- 4.2Theodicy and Divine Permission: Can Evil Be Reconciled with God?Included
- 4.3Divine Hiddenness: Why Doesn't God Just Show Himself?Included
- 4.4Naturalism and Materialism: Is the Physical World All There Is?Included
- 4.5Religious Pluralism and the Diversity of BeliefIncluded
Faith, Reason, History, and Religious Experience
Examines the relationship between faith and reason, the historical development of belief, and whether religious experience counts as evidence.
- 5.1Faith and Reason: Enemies, Allies, or Something More Complex?Included
- 5.2The Argument from Religious ExperienceIncluded
- 5.3The Historical Development of Belief in GodIncluded
- 5.4Plantinga, Reformed Epistemology, and Properly Basic BeliefIncluded
Weighing the Evidence: Forming and Defending a Reasoned Position
Equips students to synthesize everything they have learned into a well-structured, intellectually honest position they can articulate and defend.
- 6.1Worldviews in Comparison: Theism, Atheism, and Agnosticism EvaluatedIncluded
- 6.2Cumulative Case Reasoning: Weighing Multiple Lines of EvidenceIncluded
- 6.3Engaging Opposing Views with Charity and Intellectual HonestyIncluded
- 6.4Articulating Your Position: Writing and Speaking About God's ExistenceIncluded
- 6.5Where Do You Go From Here? Continuing the InquiryIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The thoughtful believer
A person of faith who wants to understand the philosophical foundations of theism and engage objections with genuine intellectual confidence rather than defensiveness.
The curious skeptic
A non-believer or agnostic who wants to engage the strongest pro-theism arguments seriously — not strawmen — and sharpen their own position through honest philosophical scrutiny.
The philosophy student
An undergraduate or independent learner studying philosophy, ethics, or theology who needs rigorous grounding in philosophy of religion and its canonical texts and arguments.
The lifelong independent learner
A well-read adult who has always taken big questions seriously and wants structured, expert-level engagement with the God question beyond popular-level books and podcasts.
The science-minded inquirer
Someone trained in the sciences who wants to understand exactly where the empirical evidence ends and the philosophical reasoning must begin — and why that distinction matters enormously.
The apologetics student
Someone engaged in Christian apologetics or interfaith dialogue who wants to move beyond rehearsed answers and engage every worldview — including their own — with deeper philosophical precision.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher

Theoria
If you're reading this, you've probably already had the frustrating experience of watching a debate about God's existence collapse into talking points. One side cites Richard Dawkins; the other cites the Bible. Someone invokes the Big Bang; someone else invokes personal experience. The conversation gets louder, the terms never get defined, and nobody's mind moves even slightly. You walk away feeling like the question is either unanswerable or just not worth the effort.
I don't think either of those things is true. I think the question of God's existence is the most consequential question a human being can sit with — and I think it deserves the kind of careful, patient, philosophically rigorous treatment that most public conversations about it never receive. That's precisely why I built this school.
What we do here is not debate prep for either team. We work through the classical arguments for God's existence — the cosmological, teleological, ontological, moral, and contingency arguments — in their strongest, most carefully formulated versions. Not the versions that are easy to knock down, but the versions that serious philosophers have actually defended and refined over centuries. Then we turn with equal seriousness to the objections: the problem of evil in its logical and evidential forms, divine hiddenness, naturalism, the challenge posed by the sheer diversity of religious belief. We ask what modern science genuinely contributes to this question — and where the philosophy has to take over where the data runs out.
I'll be honest with you about what this school will and won't do. It will not tell you what to conclude. It will not validate the belief you walked in with, or confirm the skepticism you brought to the door. What it will do is give you the tools — the vocabulary, the logical framework, the philosophical context — to form a position that is genuinely and rigorously your own. A position you can articulate, defend under pressure, and revise when better arguments demand it. That kind of intellectual integrity is harder to achieve than simply picking a side, and it is far more valuable.
Whether you are a believer who wants to understand why you believe, a skeptic who wants to engage theism at its strongest, a student navigating philosophy or theology for the first time, or simply someone who has never been satisfied with the easy answers on either side — this school was built for you. Come in with your questions. Bring your doubts and your convictions both. The only thing I ask is that you be willing to follow an argument wherever it honestly leads.
— Theoria
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