Closer to Truth

  • Premiered: May 2000
  • Episodes: 244
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary Talk show

Seasons:

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Season 4
4x1
Does God Make Sense?
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 29, 2008
How can you know whether God really exists, if you do not know what God really is? Diverse religions have diverse views.
4x2
How Vast is the Cosmos?
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 05, 2008
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.
4x3
Why Is Consciousness So Mysterious?
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 2008
How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains "experience" the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love?
4x4
Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 22, 2008
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?
4x7
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 2008
How can so many numbers of nature, the constants and relationships of physics, be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Beware: there is more than one answer lurking here.
4x8 Season finale
Do Persons Have Souls?
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 2008
Is the "Real You" a special substance that is both nonphysical and immortal? Most people think "Certainly". Most scientists think "Certainly Not". What some theologians think may trouble you.

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