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13 Episodes 2010 - 2010
Episode 1
Thu, Apr 1, 201026 mins
How does consciousness weave its magical web of inner awareness - appreciating music, enjoying art, feeling love? Even when all mental functions may be explained, the great mystery - what it "feels like" inside - will likely remain.
Episode 2
Thu, Apr 8, 201026 mins
What can we know about God? The easy answer is "nothing." God is not like anything. But that's not good enough. If there is a God, God must have traits. No?
Episode 3
Thu, Apr 15, 201027 mins
The expanding universe is humanity's monumental discovery. Beginning with something infinitesimally small, the universe has become something majestically large. How could this happen? What could this mean?
Episode 4
Thu, Apr 22, 201026 mins
What makes a human being a "person"? What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most people assume that to be a person is to have a soul, most philosophers - and some theologians - believe that persons are all material.
Episode 5
Thu, Apr 29, 201026 mins
All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly believers.
Episode 6
Thu, May 6, 201026 mins
Extra dimensions-beyond length, width, height-seem the stuff of science fiction. What would extra dimensions be like? Is time the fourth dimension? Could deep reality be so strange? And, anyway, why would we care?
Episode 7
Thu, May 13, 201026 mins
Whether alien intelligences exist has profound implications. We are either alone or not alone in the universe. No matter the ultimate answer, theists and atheists will each mold that answer to fit their opposing world views.
Episode 8
Thu, May 20, 201026 mins
Believers in the existence of God must explain the presence of evil. To theists, it's "the problem of evil." To atheists, it's "the argument from evil." Also, if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, how could God not have created evil?
Episode 9
Thu, May 27, 201026 mins
Mathematics describes the real world with remarkable precision. Is mathematics a human invention? Or a discovery, always out there, like mysterious islands waiting to be found? Closer to Truth discerns the essence of mathematics,
Episode 10
Thu, Jun 3, 201026 mins
Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans? Or is mathematics discovered?
Episode 11
Thu, Jun 10, 201026 mins
Many theologians take angels and demons seriously. Why? Certainly, most human beings believe in angels and demons. Certainly, such nonphysical beings, in one form or another, populate most of the world's religions.
Episode 12
Thu, Jun 17, 201026 mins
Every religion thunders its day of reckoning, and to examine God's judgment is to probe God's character. If God doesn't exist, His judgment may expose it. If God does exist, maybe we've missed the meaning of God's Judgment.
Episode 13
Thu, Jun 24, 201026 mins
The search for meaning and purpose is humanity's never ending quest. It is said that "how" questions belong to the realm of science, but "why" do not. Can the latter belong to science? What about the biggest "why" of them all?