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
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
MEANING - No one denies the diversity of human religions, and the apparent incompatibility of their core beliefs. Many believe only their own religion to be True. Some claim all religions reflect the same Truth. Others assert that differing dogmas expose the emptiness of all religion.
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
CONSCIOUSNESS - Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a hidden reality?
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
COSMOS - Consider humanity's astounding progress in science during the past three hundred years. Now take a deep breath and project forward, oh say, three billion years.
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
MEANING - Turn the tables on whether God exists. Atheists take their best shots at disproving God; theists deflect the arguments, defending God. Atheists come harder still; theists fight back. We keep the arguments tough-minded and the thinking critical.
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
CONSCIOUSNESS - Do we survive bodily death? Can our personal awareness transcend physical decay? There are no bigger questions and there are no shortages of answers. Some claim to have evidence.