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Closer to Truth Season 8 Episodes

13 Episodes 2011 - 2011

Episode 1

Is Evil Necessary in God's World?

Thu, Sep 29, 201126 mins

If I seek God, I cannot avoid evil. Can the enormity of evil ever be compatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God? Couldn't God have created the world without such evil?

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Episode 2

What's Beyond Physics?

Thu, Oct 6, 201126 mins

Are there revolutionary discoveries yet to be made? Radical revelations and shocking secrets? Does physical reality go beyond what we know today? Far beyond?

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Episode 3

Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?

Thu, Oct 13, 201126 mins

If ESP is real - that's a big "If" - then our entire worldview would change. Existence would be somehow enlarged. But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.

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Episode 4

Arguing God from Consciousness

Thu, Oct 20, 201126 mins

Some say that consciousness exists independent of brain, apart from the material world, and from this mystery some infer the existence of God.

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Episode 5

Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?

Thu, Oct 27, 201126 mins

We know the age of the universe, how stars were born, how galaxies were formed. But does the cosmos have meaning? Not make-believe, feel-good meaning. But real meaning.

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Episode 6

What Maintains Personal Identity?

Thu, Nov 3, 201126 mins

What makes me a self? I see. I hear. I feel. How can separate perceptions bind together into a coherent mental unity? How can all be me? And how does my self persist through time?

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Episode 7

Arguing God from Being

Thu, Nov 10, 201126 mins

I'm obsessed by raw existence, which science can never explain. Does this mean that there is a God? I wish it were that simple. Yet some claim that a 'Most Perfect Being' must exist.

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Episode 8

Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?

Thu, Nov 17, 201126 mins

Some say that science and theology together reveal deep reality. Others say that only science makes sense; theology is myth. Which is it? Science alone? Or science and theology combined?

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Episode 9

What's Wrong with Immortal Souls?

Thu, Nov 24, 201126 mins

Do human beings have immortal souls? Science dismisses anything nonphysical, and even some theologians reject immortal souls. But if no immortal souls, what happens to eternal life?

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Episode 10

Does God Have a Nature?

Thu, Dec 1, 201126 mins

What does it mean for God to have a "nature"? Will contradictions emerge that deny God? Or can we know even a little of what such an incredible Being might be like?

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Episode 11

Are There Things Not Material?

Thu, Dec 8, 201126 mins

Is the natural, physical world all-there-is? Or is there something more-a supernatural, nonphysical existence? I was trained in science, so I should be a naturalist. I'm not so sure.

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Episode 12

How Free Is God?

Thu, Dec 15, 201126 mins

God is supposed to be all-powerful, all-knowing and all good. In addition, God is supposed to be "perfectly free"? What does it mean for God to be perfectly free?

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Episode 13

Immortality and Eternal Life

Thu, Dec 22, 201126 mins

I'd like to live forever. Wouldn't you? But what would "living forever" mean? Almost every religion offers life after death. What would immortality and eternal life be like?

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