Predestination is ultimate destiny, fate. It is the claim by some religions that a Supreme Being, whether a personal God or a cosmic force, has determined for individual...
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I like arguments about God, whether based on science, philosophy or personal experience. I like to push and to be pushed, explore the possible existence of a Creator. I must...
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Episode 06
Season 10
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How to think about God rationally, logically, profoundly, critically? Have no illusion that metaphysics can find God, but can a kind of progress be made?
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Season 17
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Why are religions so pervasive, across diverse human cultures? If God exists, would God have made it so? But there are entirely natural reasons to expect the widespread...
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Season 13
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You’ve heard the raucous noise about God; now listen to the cogent arguments, con and pro. Not that determining the existence of God is up for vote; when searching for...
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Novel concepts of God challenge theism—rejecting the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Is this ‘heresy’? Or enlarging our vision of what the Ultimate can...
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Philosophers explore novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge classical theism, the personal creator of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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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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The world certainly appears to be designed, in particular from the cosmology of the cosmos rather than from the biology of species. Are appearances deceiving or revealing?...
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That there is ‘something’ and not ‘nothing’, and that science cannot explain why, is truly fascinating. Does this mean that there is a God? Some argue...
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To argue from teleology is to claim that the cosmos has a purpose. Is there directionality in the unfolding of the cosmos? Teleology has been a dirty word in science and...
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Analytic philosophy is the most rational of philosophical methods because it is the most rigorous, and it is used by theists and atheists alike to defend their opposing...
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