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Closer to Truth Season 12 Episodes

13 Episodes 2014 - 2014

Episode 1

Did the Universe Have a Beginning?

Mon, Mar 3, 201427 mins

Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning.

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Episode 2

How Humans Differ from (Other) Animals

Mon, Mar 10, 201427 mins

Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What's so special about human nature?

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Episode 3

What Would It Feel Like to Be God?

Mon, Mar 17, 201427 mins

God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God's private mental life? Can we appreciate God as a Supreme Being?

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Episode 4

What's the New Atheism?

Mon, Mar 24, 201427 mins

I hope God exists, which is why I listen to atheists and follow their arguments. If hope trumps reason I may be entombed in false belief.

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Episode 5

How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?

Mon, Mar 31, 201427 mins

Is the self an illusion? Decades roll by; every molecule of my body changes many times. Yet I sense myself the same-continuous, a unity. How can this be?

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Episode 6

Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?

Mon, Apr 7, 201427 mins

Does God exist? What are God's attributes and traits? How to examine such questions about God? Can philosophy provide insights about God?

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Episode 7

Why Do We Sleep?

Mon, Apr 14, 201427 mins

Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? What do sleeping and dreaming reveal about consciousness?

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Episode 8

Does Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?

Mon, Apr 21, 201427 mins

Does cosmic fine tuning demand explanation? The universe works for us because of deep physical laws. But if the values of these laws would much change, then all we see and know could not exist.

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Episode 9

Why Obsess About Free Will?

Mon, Apr 28, 201427 mins

Why obsess about free will? Free will probes consciousness, examines what it means to pick, choose, select, decide. But some say that 'free will' is just a trick of the brain.

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Episode 10

Why Seek an Alternative God?

Mon, May 5, 201427 mins

Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful supreme being? Some offer radically different concepts of "God."

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Episode 11

Panentheism: Is the World in God?

Mon, May 12, 201427 mins

The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. Can this new kind of God make sense?

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Episode 12

What Is Nothing?

Mon, May 19, 201427 mins

What if nothing ever existed? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. But what's the nature of nothing? That's where the confusion lies.

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Episode 13

Why Anything at All?

Mon, May 26, 201427 mins

Why is there a world, a cosmos, something-instead of absolutely nothing at all? Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why? What can we learn from "Nothing"?

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