Episodes
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
COSMOS - What could be more startling than many universes – multiple universes, innumerable universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes? But does the multiverse really exist?
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
How Many Universes Exist?
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
COSMOS - More than one universe? A ridiculous question no more! How could multiple universes be generated, and can we ever find evidence, one way or another? Talk about expanding your horizons: you can't imagine what's in store!
COSMOS - More than one universe? A ridiculous question no more! How could multiple universes be generated, and can we ever find evidence, one way or another? Talk about expanding your horizons: you can't imagine what's in store!
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
MEANING - Arguments for God, and against God, each call the universe as witness, each count the universe as evidence. God believers invoke the universe's apparent fine-tuning. God deniers envision a vast number of universes, so that anything can happen by accident, including us.
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Can Religion be Explained without God?
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
MEANING - Most people believe that God exists and religion is God's revelation. But some claim that religion needs nothing supernatural; that religion, without God, can flourish because personal psychology and group sociology drive religion.
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
What's the New Atheism?
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
MEANING - I hope God exists, which is why I listen to atheists and follow their arguments. If hope trumps reason I may be entombed in false belief.
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Challenges of Analytic Theology
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
MEANING - Is analytic theology for the better, clarifying beliefs? Or for the worse, undermining faith? How does it compare with philosophy of religion, biblical studies and exegesis, and systematic theology?
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
What is Analytic Theology?
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
MEANING - Can the analytic enrich the theological, sharpening distinctions of doctrine? Can deep questions about God be addressed with methods and practices that are precise and rigorous?
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Epistemology: How Do I Know?
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
MEANING - How can we have confidence in what we know or believe? What is knowledge? What is belief? How is belief justified? And, is justified belief, knowledge? How can we not doubt everything?
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Cosmology and Creation?
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
COSMOS - To most physicists, mindless laws generated the universe. A few believe that a supreme being is the creator. But don’t the discoveries of cosmology eliminate the need for supernatural causes?
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Why Consonance in Science and Religion?
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
COSMOS - The relationship between science and theology has easy conflicts and hard harmonies. Is consonance possible? What is consonance in science and religion that we should quest for it?