Closer To Truth
Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Seek your own answers.
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Episodes
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Monday Sep 18, 2017
COSMOS - Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play? Some physicists and philosophers say No -- time is an Illusion; time is not real. How can that be?
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Monday Sep 18, 2017
COSMOS - The universe works for us because of deep physical laws. But if the values of these laws would much change, then all we see and know could not exist.
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
MEANING - 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? Moreover, how to resurrect a body?
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
MEANING - What kind of God would create hell? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism and Islam depend on the reality of Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer Insight into what that God would be like?
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
MEANING - Judaism, Christianity and Islam each proclaim a resurrection of the dead, a bodily reconstruction of all people from all time. How would it work? Does it make sense?
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
CONSCIOUSNESS - Humankind has learned so much, so fast. What are the risks of scientific knowledge? Look to the future. Artificial intelligence. Genetic engineering. Benefits? Dangers?
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
COSMOS - Why is an observer key to quantum physics? Does the act of observation affect what exists and what happens in the external world? Why is Observation in the quantum world a mystery?
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
Thursday Jun 22, 2017
COSMOS - Scientists split on whether the universe confirms or denies God. Though most leading scientists do not believe in God, some do. What can we learn from the dispute?
Wednesday May 03, 2017
Wednesday May 03, 2017
COSMOS - How things start helps reveal what things are. How to conceive the beginning of the universe? What are latest theories? Are they all speculation? What’s the recent evidence?
Tuesday May 02, 2017
Tuesday May 02, 2017
COSMOS - The observable universe may contain two trillion galaxies and there may be innumerable universes. Is there ultimate unification, a final theory? Search for deep harmony. Discern deep meaning.