Will the Universe Ever End?
In the far, far future, what happens to planets, stars, galaxies, black holes? What’s the ‘Big Rip’ and the ‘Big Crunch’? And if ‘multiple universes’ exist, if one universe ends, do others begin?
Is This God?
Can humans probe God? Can we inquire into God’s essence and nature? Is God at all knowable? Or forever beyond human understanding? Let’s be bold in questioning God.
What is Consciousness?
Consciousness is what we know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness is baffling.
What is Ultimate Reality?
What’s the deepest nature of things? Our world is complex, filled with so much stuff. But down below, what’s fundamental? Only the physical world? Or anything nonphysical?
Season 14
Cosmos: Information? Truth? Multiverse? Consciousness: Science of consciousness? Mind heal body? Meaning: Blame God for evil? God not free?
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?
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.
Why Obsess about Free Will?
Why Obsess about Free Will? [Consciousness] Free will probes consciousness, examines what it means to pick, choose, select, decide. But some say that ‘free will’ is just a trick of the brain.
Why Seek an Alternative God?
Why Seek an Alternative God? [God] Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’.
Panentheism: Is the World in God?
Panentheism: Is the World in God? The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. Can this new kind of God make sense?
What is Nothing?
What is Nothing? What if nothing ever existed? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. But what’s the nature of nothing? That’s where the confusion lies.
Why Anything at All?
Why is there a world, a cosmos, something-instead of absolutely nothing at all? Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why? What can we learn from “Nothing”?
What is God’s Eternity?
Does God exist in time, experiencing time’s flow? Or is God eternal, existing outside of time, creating time? These questions help assess God’s existence and discern God’s essence.