Free online classrooms and exam-prep courses taught by Alfred Basta, professor, author and musician. The Skool communities below are free to join and each course is built from one of his books, one lesson per chapter, with discussion threads, an Ask the Professor room, and members who take hard questions seriously.
Faith On Trial Courses
Evidence That Would Not Break
A professor spent twelve years building a case against God and lost it to the evidence. This course follows that journey from the kitchen table to the empty tomb: the laws of logic, the beginning and fine-tuning of the universe, the code in the cell, the age of the earth, the manuscripts and the prophecies, the resurrection, and the grief that tested it all. Every lesson gives the critics their best reply and ends with questions worth arguing over.
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The Tempter’s Playbook
Know the strategy and you can resist it. A guided study of all seventeen volumes of The Malgrave Letters, one lesson per volume, that maps the tempter’s tactics letter by letter: against parents and couples, the young and the new believer, the grieving and the suffering, pastors, and anyone holding the foundations of the faith. Each lesson turns his complaints into practical counsel for your own home.
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Answering Skeptics
Twenty-five objections believers actually hear, from “science is neutral” to “the fossils prove evolution” and “dead men stay dead,” each answered in a full lesson drawn from Creation for Adults and Foundations of Creation. You get the skeptic’s follow-up questions, the strongest answers, and a note on what not to overstate, so you can speak with confidence and without bluffing.
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Creation Questions
One hundred questions about origins, answered in twenty-one lessons: Genesis as history, Noah’s Flood, rock layers and canyons, dinosaurs, dating methods, the origin of life, the genome, design in the cell, physics and starlight, the solar system, and what makes us human. Built from Made, Not Mutated and two encyclopedia series, with the case stated in detail and the critics’ replies alongside it.
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Fiction That Argues
A guided read-along of the novel Ward No. 8. Follow Dr. Nathan Weaver, a physician and committed skeptic, onto the palliative ward where the dying face death with a peace he cannot explain. Each lesson retells about eight chapters, lays out every argument the characters make, gives the unbelievers their full force, and asks the questions the ward asks of all of us.
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The Cross Examination
The year is 2040. A professor is put on trial for teaching Genesis as history, and two days in, the prosecution puts the whole Bible in the dock. Walk through all thirteen days of testimony: death and the Flood, the cell, the rocks, the manuscripts, archaeology, prophecy, the empty tomb, and the stars. Each lesson retells a day, gives the prosecution its best points, and names the real research behind the fiction.
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From Lyrics to Master I: Lyrics
Write from a real event with literary precision. Fifteen lessons on lyrics that last: the lyric-first philosophy, building a system of metaphor out of water, dark and fire, reading like a writer, song cycles about love, family and loss, letters as lyrics, and the refusal of the easy conclusion. A writing exercise in every lesson, drawn from the forthcoming series From Lyrics to Master.
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From Lyrics to Master II: Harmony
Let the feeling lead and let the theory follow. Fifteen lessons on harmony for writers who compose by ear: the three faces of minor, modal color, the power of the ninth, suspensions that create yearning, diminished and augmented tension, voice leading within a small range, borrowed chords, secondary dominants, and reharmonization, each tied to the emotion it carries.
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From Lyrics to Master III: Arrangement
Turn a guitar-and-vocal sketch into a finished record. Fifteen lessons on nylon-string foundations, electric guitar textures, keyboard voicing, pads and atmosphere, bass with groove and authority, fretless restraint, drum programming with human feel, rhythms from other traditions, layering, the subtraction pass, and the dynamics that give a song space to breathe. Every layer serves the vocal.
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Music Harmony Mastery
How modern music really uses harmony. Twelve lessons that start with scales, chords and modes, then travel through rock, blues, funk and disco, Latin, reggae and flamenco, jazz extensions and substitutions, pop progressions, soul ballads, and the synth-pop of the eighties, with the techniques of the artists who shaped each style, and a final lesson on writing your own songs with all of it.
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Lyrics, Emotion, and Literary Craft
The writer’s side of songwriting. Ten lessons on why lyrics come first, reading like a writer, building a metaphor system, letting music serve the words, song cycles of love, family and resilience, letters as lyrics, the poetic techniques that carry emotion, and the use of time, narrative and silence. Ends with a process you can make your own.
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AI Literacy for All
A plain-language journey through what artificial intelligence and data science really are. Fifteen lessons on data as raw material, how machines learn, regression and classification, clustering and anomalies, the data lifecycle, the AI toolkit, bias and privacy, where AI is heading, AI in the city, and how to keep your own literacy current. Each lesson ends with takeaways and a short exercise.
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Foundations of AI and Data Science
The groundwork in six deep lessons: where AI came from and how data science works, getting data and making it usable, the core machine learning algorithms, ensembles and neural networks, language, vision and recommendation systems, and putting models into production responsibly. For anyone who wants a solid, honest grounding before building anything.
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AI-Powered Ethical Hacking
How artificial intelligence is changing offensive security, from reconnaissance to reporting. Twenty lessons on the AI-augmented testing lifecycle, law and ethics, building the lab, AI-driven reconnaissance and scanning, prioritizing vulnerabilities with machine learning, responsible exploitation, web, network, wireless, cloud and mobile testing, social engineering with generative AI, adversarial machine learning, red-teaming large language models, and the future of the field.
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Exam preparation for the CompTIA SecAI+ certification, written the way exam questions are actually written: scenario-based, with plausible distractors, and with the BEST, FIRST and MOST wording you will face on test day.
CompTIA SecAI+ (CY0-001) Practice Tests: 6 Full Exams 2026
Walk into the SecAI+ exam already knowing what it feels like. Six full-length, timed practice exams built to the official blueprint and weighted across all four domains: basic AI concepts for cybersecurity, securing AI systems, AI-assisted security, and AI governance, risk and compliance. Every one of the 360 questions comes with an explanation of why the right answer is right and why each distractor is wrong, tagged by domain so you know exactly what to study next.
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CompTIA SecAI+ (CY0-001) Practice Tests Vol. 2: 2 Full Exams
More full-length practice for the final stretch. Two additional 60-question timed exams with 120 brand-new questions that never repeat Volume 1, covering prompt injection, data and model poisoning, model theft, excessive agency, OWASP and MITRE ATLAS threat resources, access and data controls, monitoring and auditing, and compliance with the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF. Pair it with the six-exam course for eight complete exams.
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