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Closer to Truth Season 11 Episodes

13 Episodes 2013 - 2013

Episode 1

Time at Sea

Thu, Jun 6, 201327 mins

Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play? Some physicists and philosophers say no - time is an Illusion; time is not real. How can that be?

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Episode 2

What Is Time?

Sat, Jun 15, 201327 mins

To appreciate time is to touch the texture of reality. Does time differ from our common perceptions of it? Is time fixed or flexible?

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Episode 3

Why Believe in God?

Sat, Jun 22, 201327 mins

This is personal. Why should I want to believe in God? Is belief a circular path of self-deception? Or the shortest route to bedrock reality?

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Episode 4

Alternative Concepts of God?

Sat, Jun 29, 201327 mins

Philosophers explore novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge classical theism, the personal creator of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Episode 5

Pantheism: Is the World God?

Mon, Jul 8, 201327 mins

Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse Pantheism? Pantheism's claim is not shy; God is Everything and Everything is God.

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Episode 6

How Do Brains Work?

Sat, Jul 13, 201327 mins

Everything we know, everything we think, comes from our brain. Are brains our window to reality, seeing what truly exists? Or are we bound by brains, mental slaves of the meat in our heads?

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Episode 7

What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?

Sat, Jul 20, 201327 mins

Do stars and spaces go on forever? Do the numbers of galaxies, and even of universes, have no end? Here's how infinity enriches appreciation of reality.

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Episode 8

What Is God's Eternity?

Sat, Jul 27, 201327 mins

Does God exist in time, experiencing time's flow? Or is God eternal, existing outside of time, creating time? These questions help assess God's existence and discern God's essence.

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Episode 9

Why Is Free Will a Big Question?

Sat, Aug 3, 201327 mins

Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it's subtle, profound, maddening, Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems.

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Episode 10

Is Free Will an Illusion?

Sat, Aug 10, 201327 mins

Some philosophers and scientists claim that because every event is determined by prior events, including every event in our brains, free will is not real. What are the arguments, the evidence?

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Episode 11

What's in a Resurrection?

Sat, Aug 17, 201327 mins

Judaism, Christianity and Islam each proclaim a resurrection of the dead, a bodily reconstruction of all people from all time. How would it work? Does it make sense?

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Episode 12

Does Hell Reveal God?

Sat, Aug 24, 201327 mins

What kind of God would create hell? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism and Islam depend on the reality of Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer Insight into what that God would be like?

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Episode 13

Confronting Consciousness

Sat, Aug 31, 201327 mins

Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else.

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