Closer to Truth

Season 14

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Closer To Truth is a public television series featuring scientists, philosophers, theologians and scholars exploring the deepest questions of Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning-the structure of the universe, the nature of the mind and the search for ultimate reality.

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13 Episodes

  • Can the Mind Heal the Body?
    E1
    Can the Mind Heal the Body?
  • Is God Responsible for Evil?
    E2
    Is God Responsible for Evil?How on earth could God be reconciled with massive, monstrous Evil? If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is the creator, wouldn't God be responsible for evil?
  • What Is Information?
    E3
    What Is Information?Information is all the rage in science, changing how we think about fundamental questions. Information has many descriptions, some of them surprising. Why is Information so important to scientists and philosophers?
  • Can Design Point to God?
    E4
    Can Design Point to God?
  • What Is Truth?
    E5
    What Is Truth?Everyone wants to know 'Truth'. But what is Truth? People argue about Truth; people fight about Truth-consider politics and religion. But what is the basic meaning of Truth itself?
  • Does Information Create the Cosmos?
    E6
    Does Information Create the Cosmos?
  • Why a Body in a Resurrection?
    E7
    Why a Body in a Resurrection?Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach the 'resurrection of the body', the person brought back to life. But isn't a 'body' out of place in a nonphysical hereafter? Isn't a body a burden throughout eternity? Most importantly, how to resurrect a body?
  • Must Multiple Universes Exist?
    E8
    Must Multiple Universes Exist?Of all human knowledge, the most stunning may be multiple universes-very many universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes. Are multiple universes-the 'multiverse'-scientific fact, theory or speculation?
  • Toward a Science of Consciousness
    E9
    Toward a Science of Consciousness
  • Big Questions in Free Will Part I
    E10
    Big Questions in Free Will Part IWhat is free will? Do we have free will? The 'Big Questions in Free Will' project tackles these issues in a multi-year study. In Part I, scientists and philosophers research, test, and advance thinking on free will.
  • Big Questions in Free Will Part II
    E11
    Big Questions in Free Will Part IIHow we think about free will affects how we live our lives and structure our societies. In Part II of our following the multi-year 'Big Questions in Free Will' project, experts discuss the psychological, social and moral aspects of Free Will.
  • Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?
    E12
    Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?The tension between human free will and God's knowledge of the future threatens both. It's called God's 'foreknowledge'-God knowing now what will happen later-and one need not believe in God to appreciate the puzzles.
  • How Can God Not Be Free?
    E13
    How Can God Not Be Free?Does God have real choices? Or is God bound tightly by God's own nature? Can God do absolutely everything? Can God be 'brave'? Can God 'improve'? For God to be God, how can God be constrained all?

 

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