Episodes
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains "experience" the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love?Featuring Venerable Dr. Yifa, Susan Blackmore, Keith Ward, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, John Searle, and Colin McGinn.
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Is This the End Time?
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
MEANING - In every generation, some religious believers imagined their time to be the end time. Why is this so? Is our generation different? What, in a religious nutshell, is the End Time?Featuring James Tabor, Robert Saucy, Nancey Murphy, Arthur Hyman, and Gregory Boyd.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
How do Brains Work?
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - Everything we know, everything we think, comes from our brain. Are brains our window to reality, seeing what truly exists? Or are we bound by brains, mental slaves of the meat in our heads?Featuring Christopher Evans, Kelsey Martin, Robert Bilder, Jared Diamond, and Rodney Brooks.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Can Science Deal With God?
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
COSMOS - Science can deal with God in at least three ways: Showing how God is not necessary; showing how God is likely; not relating to God at all. Only one way can be correct.Featuring Lawrence Krauss, Francis Collins, Robert Russell, Ian Barbour, Freeman Dyson, and Michio Kaku.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Arguing God From Morality
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
MEANING - Humans have a sense of right and wrong. Does this mean that morality is absolute? And if absolute, would God be needed to make it so? Even theologians are perplexed by God & Morality; some even admit it.Featuring J.P. Moreland, Richard Swinburne, Francis S. Collins, Michael Tooley, and Michael Shermer.
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Confronting Consciousness
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought, and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else.Featuring David Eagleman, Warren Brown, Keith Ward, Christof Koch, and Tim Bayne.
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
What Things Really Exist?
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
COSMOS - When you ask "what things really exist", and you think deeply about this universal probe, you see the whole world anew. It's such a simple question; how does it inspire such profound insight?Featuring Roger Penrose, Peter van Inwagen, John Searle, William Lane Craig, and John Leslie.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
How Can God Not be Free?
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
MEANING - 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?
Featuring Michael Almeida, Hugh McCann, Matthews Grant, and David Hunt.
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
How Are Brains Structured?
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just astonishing.
Featuring Arnold B. Scheibel, Carmine D. Clemente, John D. Schlag, Christof Koch, Mike Merzenich, and Rodolfo R. Llinas.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
How Vast is the Cosmos?
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
COSMOS - Everyone knows that the universe is huge, but no one could have imagined how staggeringly immense the universe, or multiple universes, may actually be. It stops your breath.Featuring Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, Alan H. Guth, Andrei Linde, and Paul Davies.