Closer To Truth

Why Is The Universe Breathtaking?

COSMOS - I look up and I look down and I chill with awe. I look up to the universe and envision hundreds of billions of galaxies. I look down to the atom and imagine minuscule, infinitesimal particles and forces. This is reality.

Must Multiple Universes Exist?

COSMOS - 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?

What Does An Expanding Universe Mean?

COSMOS - The expanding universe is humanity's monumental discovery. Beginning with something infinitesimally small, the universe has become something majestically large. How could this happen? What could this mean?

Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?

COSMOS - How does metaphysics contribute to our understanding of the world? It asks the most profound questions: What kinds of things exist? How does causality work? Sound too abstract? How about: Does God exist? Are you a soul?

The Mystery of Existence

COSMOS - Call all-that-exists "something." Why is there "something" rather than "nothing"? The question haunts me. Why is there anything at all?

What's Beyond Physics?

COSMOS - Are there revolutionary discoveries yet to be made? Radical revelations and shocking secrets? Does physical reality go beyond what we know today? Far beyond?

Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

CONSCIOUSNESS - Parapsychologists are sure ESP is real. Skeptics are sure it is not. But if ESP is real, would ESP need to go beyond physical laws, reaching into unknown non-physical realms?

Why Is Free Will A Mystery?

CONSCIOUSNESS -
Episode Synopsis
Our human sense is that our will is fully free. Our scientific sense is that every action is determined by a prior action. Free will versus determinism is a big question, affecting morality, responsibility, even consciousness.

Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?

MEANING - 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.

Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?

CONSCIOUSNESS - Since God (supposedly) knows everything and can never be wrong, including about future events, how could those future events not come to pass? If we cannot do other than what God knew prior, how then free will?