Five Free Courses Built From My Books
A team of volunteers has turned my flagship books into five free courses, four on apologetics and one on spiritual warfare. Here is what is available.
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Reflections from Alfred Basta, professor, author and musician, on faith and evidence, origins, marriage and family, grief and hope, and the stories behind the books. New articles are added regularly, and subscribers get an email whenever something new is published.
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Watch an Atheist at a Funeral
Materialism is tidy on paper. Nobody at a graveside says the pattern has dispersed. Grief testifies that persons are not patterns and death is an intruder.
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The Battery Is Not Dead, So the Universe Had a Beginning
The second law of thermodynamics says usable energy always runs down. The stars are still burning, so the universe has not been here forever.
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The Halo Was Never Evidence
The Dark Side of Darwin series ends with a verdict on the man, an honest word about what it does not prove, and a look at the trial still to come.
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An Award, a Photograph, and the People Who Deserve It
I received the award for Best Christian Author of 2025/2026 today. I chose to be photographed with the three people who truly deserve it.
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The Clay Tablet That Remembers the Flood
In 1872 George Smith read a broken tablet from Nineveh and found a flood story the whole ancient world seems to remember.
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The Darwin Passage His Family Hid for Seventy Years
Why did Darwin believe it all? The museum says pure evidence. His own pen, in a passage his family censored for seventy years, answers differently.
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If Atheism Is True, No Criminal Was Ever Guilty
Take away free will and you take away blame. A worldview that erases responsibility cannot condemn a single villain, and it knows it.
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Every Scientist Exercises Faith Before Breakfast
Science assumes the universe runs on laws that will hold tomorrow. It cannot prove that. Only one worldview expects it to be true.
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The Book I Wrote After Twelve Years of Trying to Disprove God
I spent twelve years trying to prove God did not exist. Why I Decided to Believe in God is the account of what the evidence did instead.
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