Episodes
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - What 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.Featuring Bertram Malle, Eddy Nahmias, Roy Baumeister, Patrick Haggard, Adina Roskies, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Alfred Mele.
Friday Dec 11, 2020
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - How is it possible that mushy masses of brain cells, passing chemicals and shooting sparks literally are mental sensations and subjective feelings? They seem so radically different.Featuring John Searle, Ned Block, J.P. Moreland, Marvin Minsky, and Colin McGinn.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
COSMOS - How can so many numbers of nature, the constants and relationships of physics, be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Beware: there is more than one answer lurking here.Featuring John Leslie, Steven Weinberg, David Gross, John Polkinghorne, Robin Collins, and Paul Davies.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
COSMOS - Forget science. Forget God. This is the ultimate question: What if Everything had Forever been Nothing? Not just emptiness, not just blankness, but not even the existence of emptiness, not even the meaning of blankness, and no Forever. If you don't get dizzy, you really don't get it.Featuring John Leslie, Peter van Inwagen, Bede Rundle, Quentin Smith, Richard Swinburne and Steven Weinberg.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
How Could God Interact with the World?
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
MEANING - If God exists, and if God ordains history and generates miracles, how does He do it? Fiddle with each and every atom? Command all of them en masse? What possibly could be God's technique?Featuring Robert Russell, John Polkinghorne, Paul Davies, Alvin Plantinga and Ernan McMullin.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - Why do we have inner awareness? Why does it ‘feel like something’ inside to see, hear, taste, think? It’s called ‘consciousness’ and it seems mysterious—but can science explain it? We talk to experts at the 20th biennial conference, “Toward a Science of Consciousness.”Featuring Stuart Hameroff, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Deepak Chopra, Susan Blackmore and Rebecca Goldstein.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
COSMOS - Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?Featuring Martin Rees, Wendy Freedman, Alan Guth, George Smoot and Alexander Vilenkin.
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Arguing God from Design
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
MEANING - The world certainly appears to be designed. Are appearances deceiving? Discover new twists to this old argument.Featuring Richard Swinburne, Bede Rundle, Steven Weinberg, William Dembski, Francisco Ayala, Michael Shermer, and Freeman Dyson.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
What are Dreams About?
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - Throughout history, dreams have fascinated and mystified. Messages from God? Images of the subconscious? Much about dreams is myth. What‘s real?Featuring Robert Stickgold, Deirdre Barrett, Christopher Isham, and Patrick McNamara.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Did God Create Time?
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
MEANING - God and Time are two huge mysteries; relating them probes the nature of God, and perhaps even the existence of a Creator. If God is in Time and experiences its passage, then how could God have created Time? Also Leibniz's famous question: "Why didn't God create the world sooner?"Featuring Brian Leftow, John Polkinghorne, Ernan McMullin, William Craig, Varadaraja Raman, and Robert Russell.