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Philosophical inquiries including the anthropic principle; fine-tuning in physics and cosmology; and atonement, salvation, and incarnation.
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There are two basic theories about how the universe will end. Neither are pleasant. The first spells out an inward-rushing, squashing-together of all things and the second...
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Roundtable
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There are three questions that speak directly to human uniqueness and purpose. 1) Does intelligent non-human life exist anywhere in the universe?; 2) Given the fullness of...
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Two planetary scientists and an astrophysicist make the case that the search for life in other parts of our universe has been made all the more valid by two recent...
26:24
We look up and we look down and in both directions we chill with awe. We look up to the universe and envision hundreds of billions of galaxies. We look down to the atom and...
Topic Series
6 videos
53:42
Why do scientists use the word ‘beauty’ to describe the universe? Gaze at the universe with a knowing eye. There’s beauty on every level—simplicity and...
8 videos
1:15:37
What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature ‘beautiful’? On the largest supra-cosmic scales, and on the smallest sub-atomic scales,...
5 videos
55:55
Do intelligent aliens exist? Who knows? But here’s what we do know: the potential existence of intelligent aliens probes meaning and purpose in the universe. What would...
1:13:36
It seems absurd in a universe with 100 billion galaxies, each with billions of stars and planets, that we are the only intelligent life. So where are all the others? This is...
9 videos
1:19:59
Our universe has been developing for about 14 billion years, but human-level intelligence, at least on earth, has emerged in a remarkably short period of time, measured in...
1:18:15
The Copernican Principle asserts that humans are not special, that we should expect to find ourselves in an ordinary place or position. But if humanity continues for billions...
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