Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates the universal belief in things we cannot see? Some say the reason...
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Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse ‘pantheism’? Pantheism’s claim is not shy: God is the Cosmos and the Cosmos is God. But...
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If God exists, one most important question is whether God is a “person”. Only a person has awareness, beliefs, intents, goals, relationships. An impersonal force...
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Episode 12
Season 05
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What does it mean for God to be ‘good’? God can never be bad, do evil, sin? Sure, but what about positive things that God can do? What are those things that best...
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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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What is the ultimate essence of all things? What is ultimate existence, the ground of being? What are transcendence, oneness, ineffability, causation? What is Brahman in...
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Mathematics describes our world. But what about mathematics itself? Can we say what math is, not just what math does? Is math intrinsic to existence, the building blocks of...
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What does it mean for God to be perfect? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Perfectly free? Did God create the ‘perfect world’?...
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Many theologians take angels and demons seriously. Why? Certainly, most human beings believe in angels and demons. Certainly, such nonphysical beings, in one form or another,...
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To some, personal religious experience is the best evidence of the existence of God. To others, such emotion-based beliefs can only reflect crowd-induced illusions or...
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Is probability a deep probe of how the world works at fundamental levels? Or is probability merely a tool of human perception in trying to discern what is true and what is...
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