What if God were a ‘person’? A person has sense, knowledge, will, intent, feelings. A person can be compassionate, sympathetic, empathetic. If God were a person,...
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Episode 05
Season 13
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Is God, if there is a God, the ‘God of History’? Does God make specific interventions in the course of human events to ensure that God’s purpose be...
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If God exists, did God create everything? Did God create out of literally “nothing”? Suppose there was no beginning to the cosmos, just the universe going through...
Episode 06
Season 05
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What are biological theories, their scope and depth? How do biologists think? How do they conduct their research and construct their theories? What happens when traditional...
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If God exists outside of time—not in time, but timeless and eternal—what would that mean about God’s nature? God would never ‘lose’ the past or...
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We’ve heard the raucous noise about God, God’s existence and nature. Better are cogent arguments, con and pro. Not that the existence or nature of God is up for...
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Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art?...
Episode 07
Season 20
What is the three-way relationship among mind, art, and transcendence? What is it about art that can elicit the sense of transcendence, going beyond the self, bursting the...
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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the value of the arts as sources of understanding — the arts as more than sources of delight, amusement, pleasure, or emotional...
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Atheism fields two kinds of arguments denying the existence of God: arguments that refute so-called ‘proofs’ of God’s existence and arguments that...
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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...
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