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,...
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Episode 12
Season 10
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What is the relationship between science and religion in the major traditions: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Chinese traditions as well as Christianity? What are...
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This ontological and much-debated argument for God’s existence claims that a ‘Perfect Being’ must exist because ‘existence’ is a perfection. The...
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If God can do everything, what would this mean? Can God make a circle square, a bachelor married, 2+2=5? Can God make it the case that God does not exist? How about change...
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Theologians have no tougher task than explaining evil, its enormity even more than its existence. Give the clergy their due: they’ve devised clever, even profound,...
Episode 08
Season 02
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Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems....
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To argue for God, the easy way appears to be ‘design’, the obvious order and apparent purpose of the world. How could all of this be if there were no God? Quite easily,...
Episode 04
Season 14
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Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter:...
Season 03
If God exists and if God is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good, why horrendous evil? If it is good to know God, why is God hidden? Skeptical theism is the claim that we...
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Conflicting religions fill the world. Doctrines about God contradict one another. No one denies the diversity of religions and the apparent incompatibility of their core...
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Theists and atheists debate whether God exists. But what God are they arguing over? There’s enormous variation in the kinds of gods that populate religions.
Episode 11
Season 09
What is the ultimate future? How do the major religions address “final things”—eschatology—life after death, structure of reality, transformation of the world? We...
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