Closer to Truth
(05/07/2000–06/26/2015)PBS (US)30 min
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Episodes
S01E01
What are the Grand Questions of Science?
S01E02
Will the Internet Change Humanity?
S01E03
What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
S01E04
New Communities for the New Millennium?
S01E05
How Did This Universe Begin?
S01E06
Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
S01E07
What Is Consciousness?
S01E08
Can You Really Extend Your Life?
S01E09
Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
S01E10
Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
S01E11
How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
S01E12
Strange Physics of the Mind?
S01E13
Can Science Seek the Soul?
S01E14
Does Sex Have a Future?
S02E01
Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?
S02E02
What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?
S02E03
How Does Creativity Work at Work?
S02E04
Do Brains Make Minds?
S02E05
Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?
S02E06
Why Do We Make Music and Art?
S02E07
Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?
S02E08
How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?
S02E09
Who Needs Sex Therapy?
S02E10
How Does Technology Transform Society?
S02E11
Can You Learn to Be Creative?
S02E12
What Is Parapsychology?
S02E13
Will This Universe Ever End?
S02E14
Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?
S03E01
Is Science Fiction Science?
S03E02
Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?
S03E03
How Does the Autistic Brain Work?
S03E04
How Weird Is the Cosmos?
S03E05
Microbes - Friend or Foe?
S03E06
How Does Order Arise in the Universe?
S03E07
What Makes Music So Significant?
S03E08
Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?
S03E09
Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?
S03E10
How Does Basic Science Defend America?
S03E11
Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?
S03E12
Is Consciousness Definable?
S03E13
Is the Universe Full of Life?
S03E14
Can Religion Withstand Technology?
S03E15
Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?
S08E06
How Is God the Creator?
S08E07
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
S08E08
What Things Are Conscious?
S08E09
Can Religion Be Explained Without God?
S08E10
What's Real About Time?
S08E11
How Do People Maintain Their Identity?
S08E12
Is God a Person?
S08E13
Asking Ultimate Questions
S09E01
Arguing God From Natural Theology
S09E02
What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe?
S09E03
Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
S09E04
Is God All Knowing?
S09E05
Why Is the Quantum So Strange?
S09E06
Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises?
S09E07
Is God Necessary?
S09E08
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
S09E09
Do Human Brains Have Free Will?
S09E10
Arguing for Agnosticism?
S09E11
Are Science and Religion at War?
S09E12
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
S09E13
A New Heaven and a New Earth?
S10E02
Why Is the Universe Breathtaking?
S10E03
Does Consciousness Have Meaning?
S10E04
Arguing God From Miracles?
S10E05
Marvels of Space-Time?
S10E06
What Makes Brains Conscious?
S10E07
Is God Perfect?
S10E08
What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?
S10E09
Is Human Consciousness Special?
S10E10
If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will?
S10E11
Can Science Talk God?
S10E12
Do Persons Survive Death?
S10E13
Is Theism Coherent?
S11E02
What's Beyond Physics?
S11E03
Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?
S11E04
Arguing God From Consciousness?
S11E05
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
S11E06
What Maintains Personal Identity?
S11E07
Arguing God From Being?
S11E08
Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?
S11E09
What's Wrong With Immortal Souls?
S11E10
Does God Have a Nature?
S11E11
Are There Things Not Physical?
S11E12
How Free Is God?
S11E13
Immortality and Eternal Life
S12E01
Fallacies in Proving God Exists
S12E02
Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe?
S12E03
Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy
S12E04
What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean?
S12E05
Does a Creator God Work?
S12E06
Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation
S12E07
How Is God All Powerful?
S12E08
Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
S12E09
Complexity From Simplicity?
S12E10
Do Humans Have Free Will?
S12E11
What Is God About?
S12E12
Does Consciousness Point to God?
S12E13
The Mystery of Existence?
S13E02
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
S13E03
What Is God?
S13E04
Do General Principles Govern All Science?
S13E06
Diverse Argument for God
S13E07
Why Science and Religion Think Differently
S13E08
What Are Dreams About?
S13E09
Can God Face Up Evil?
S13E10
How Belief Systems Work
S13E11
Do Religions Complement or Contradict?
S13E12
What's in a Resurrection?
S13E13
Time at Sea
S14E01
Time at Sea
S14E02
What Is Time?
S14E03
Why Believe in God?
S14E04
Alternative Concepts of God?
S14E05
Pantheism: Is the World God?
S14E06
How Do Brains Work?
S14E07
What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?
S14E08
What Is God's Eternity?
S14E09
Why Is Free Will a Big Question?
S14E10
Is Free Will an Illusion?
S14E11
What's in a Resurrection?
S14E12
Does Hell Reveal God?
S14E13
Confronting Consciousness
S15E01
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
S15E02
How Do Humans Differ From Other Animals?
S15E03
What Would It Feel Like to Be God?
S15E04
What's the New Atheism?
S15E05
How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?
S15E06
Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?
S15E07
Why Do We Sleep?
S15E08
Does Cosmic Fine Tuning Demand Explanation?
S15E09
Why Obsess About Free Will?
S15E10
Why Seek an Alternative God?
S15E11
Panentheism: Is the World in God?
S15E12
What Is Nothing?
S15E13
Why Anything at All?
S16E01
What Is Ultimate Reality?
S16E02
What Is Consciousness?
S16E03
Is This God?
S16E04
Will the Universe Ever End?
S16E05
Can the Divine Be a Person?
S16E06
Is Death Final?
S16E07
What Causes Religious Belief?
S16E08
What Things Are Real?
S16E09
Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will?
S16E10
What Can We Learn From Alternative Gods?
S16E11
Why God, Not Nothing?
S16E12
Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?
S16E13
Is God Totally Free?
S17E01
Can the Mind Heal the Body?
S17E02
Is God Responsible for Evil?
S17E03
What Is Information?
S17E04
Can Design Point to God?
S17E05
What Is Truth?
S17E06
Does Information Create the Cosmos?
S17E07
Why a Body in a Resurrection?
S17E08
Must Multiple Universes Exist?
S17E09
Toward a Science of Consciousness
S17E10
Big Questions in Free Will Part I
S17E11
Big Questions in Free Will Part II
S17E12
Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?
S17E13
How Can God Not Be Free?