I asked 50 Catholic apologists, philosophers, theologians, and influencers, one question.

What is the best argument for the existence of God?

In today's episode, I'm going to break down their answers,

and what this means for how we as Christians should answer atheism

and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to a thoroughly secular world.

But first, a little background.

Back in June, Protestant scholar Sean McDowell asked

100 Christian apologists, including myself, what is the best argument for God? By the way, Sean has

written the best treatment on the martyrdom of the apostles, so I highly recommend it if you want to

ramp up your who would die for a lie argument for the resurrection of Jesus. Now, I had a tough time deciding on my

answer to the question for Sean's survey, but I eventually settled on the contingency argument

for God's existence. I was shocked, however, to find out that no other Christian apologist in

Sean's survey mentioned this argument. I was the only one. Trent Horn, a Catholic apologist, was the only one who

said contingency. Now, this is a kind of causal logical argument, but it moves from the existence

of contingent things, like the universe, that didn't have to exist, as saying the best explanation

for its existence is a necessary being.

Afterwards, I went back through Sean's list of apologists and noticed that the vast

majority of them, probably over 95%, were Protestant.

Many of them were associated with the Talbot School of Theology, which is part of the

Evangelical Biola University.

So that got me thinking, what would Catholic scholars say about this same question,

and how might their results mirror or diverge from these Protestant scholars? So I sent out a bunch of

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