GOD'S EXISTENCE

Come now, let us reason together.

—Isaiah 1:18

The following is a list of free resources (except for books, unless borrowed from your local library). The information is under three categories: video, audio, and text (including books). It includes both philosophic and scientific proofs for a "super-intelligent, transcendent, creative power standing at the origins of our universe."[1]

VIDEO

Science, God & Creation
Magis Center of Reason and Faith
See the Text section below for the related study guide.


 
Other videos from the Magis Center. (Scroll down.)

AUDIO

Finding God Through Faith And Reason (online or mp3)

HOST: Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

NOTE: To access the mp3 format: The following are direct links to listen online; right click on the audio bar to download the mp3.

     The series can also be accessed via the above link which is to the Audio Search page.

• EPISODE 1: How Can You Prove God's Existence?
• EPISODE 2: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proof of an Uncaused Cause
• EPISODE 3: Metaphysical Proof Part One: Proof of an Unconditioned Reality
• EPISODE 4: Metaphysical Proof Part Two: Proof of an Absolutely Simple Reality
• EPISODE 5: Metaphysical Proof Part Three: Proof of a Unique, Unrestricted Reality
• EPISODE 6: Metaphysical Proof Part Four: Proof of a Continuous Creator of All Else That Is
• EPISODE 7: A Priori Cosmological Proof Part One: Proof that Past Time is Finite and Requires a Creator
• EPISODE 8: A Priori Cosmological Proof Part Two: Proof that the Creator of Past Time is not Conditioned by Time and is Therefore Absolutely Simple
• EPISODE 9: A Posteriori Cosmological Evidence: The Universe is Finite in Time and Space, Implying a Creator
• EPISODE 10: Teleological Evidence, Part One: The Extreme Improbability of the Universe Being Capable of Sustaining Life
• EPISODE 11: Teleological Evidence, Part Two: The Extremely Improbably Universe Betokens a Super-Intellect Designer
• EPISODE 12: Manifestations of God's Absolute Simplicity: Truth, Love, Goodness, Beauty and Being
• EPISODE 13: Evidence of the Human Soul: Our Desire for Perfect and Unconditional Truth, Love, Goodness, Beauty and Being
• EPISODE 14: The Proofs in Light of Christian Faith: One God, Three Persons and the Incarnation

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. (professor of philosophy, Boston College)

• Arguments For God's Existence
• Desire (a broader treatment of the text version below)

Catholic Answers Live

• Listener-participated radio show. Watch their live stream on Twitch, YouTube; there are many other ways to tune in to the show as well; or check out their archives on YouTube and at Catholic Answers.
  
• Although CAL covers many topics, they regularly have shows on God's existence and atheism from a scientific and philosophical position. A good search term for this would be "Trent Horn" who is the guest on many of this topic's episodes.

TEXT

Summa Theologiae
Question 12. How God is known by us

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. (professor of philosophy, Boston College)
     Arguments for God's Existence:

• Can You Prove God Exists?
• Argument from Design
• The First Cause Argument
• The Argument From Conscience
• The Argument From History
• The Argument From Pascal's Wager
• The Argument From Desire (A broader treatment is available in audio format above.)
• The Divinity Of Christ
• Resurrection Evidence
• 20 Arguments For God's Existence (Includes discussion questions.)

Strange Notions
Description: "…the central place of dialogue between Catholics and atheists."

• A very lengthy and categorized list of recommended books.
  

Magis Center for Reason and Faith (Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.)

   Scholarly articles:

• PDF: From Nothing To Cosmos (A study guide.)
  
• PDF: Proof from Godel Theorem Shows God Exists through Super Axiom
• PDF: Physical Proof of God: Derived from Principles in Bernard Lonergan's Insight 
• PDF: God and Modern Physics: Facts About the Beginning and Design of the Universe
• PDF: 70,000 Years Ago, What Made Us Human: The Origin of a Soul?
  
• PDF: Evidence for God from Physics and Philosophy 
  
• PDF: Thomistic Metaphysical Proof of God (with a response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion)
  
• PDF: Contemporary, Scientifically Validated Miracles Associated with Blessed Mary, Saints and the Holy Eucharist
  
• PDF: Science, Medicine, and Near Death Experiences 
  
• PDF: Evidence of God from Contemporary Science and Philosophy
  
• PDF: Science, Medicine, and Near Death Experiences
• PDF: Evidence of a Transcendent Soul
• PP: Evidence of Our Transphysical Soul: Responding to the Myth of Materialism

New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
Robert J. Spitzer [PhD]. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Grand Rapids. 2010.

• 320 pages
• Topics include: universal space-time asymmetry, cosmic coincidences, the intelligibility of reality, string theory, quantum cosmology, mathematical thoughts on infinity, and much more.

NEW Five Proofs of the Existence of God

Edward Feser [PhD]. Ignatius Press. San Francisco. 2017.

• 336 pages
  
• From the back cover: … a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important, (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical proofs of God's existence: the Aristotilian, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist.
         It also offers a thorough treatment of each of the key divine attributes — unity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forth — showing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs.
         This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the past — thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many other — that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism.
  

ENDNOTES

[1] Quote from Ignatius Press.

Page last updated: 2020.06.08