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I’d like to live forever. Wouldn’t you? But what would “living forever” mean? Almost every religion offers life after death. What would immortality...
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Episode 13
Season 08
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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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Does God exist? Or something like God? Or some kind of deity or demiurge? If so, what is its essence and nature? We explore Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese...
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56:08
Does everything need a cause? Everything in the universe surely does. But what about the universe as a whole? And what about God – assuming God exists – does God...
Episode 12
Season 01
Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...
1:05:55
Philosophy of religion poses numerous questions about God: “proof” or “disproofs” of existence, nature and attributes, personhood, relation to time, relation to...
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38:24
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?
Episode 04
Season 17
26:48
In our search for God we steer clear of miracles. Believers exhort that miracles are real and evince the existence of a supernatural being. As promoted by serious thinkers we...
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1:19:06
What are the classical arguments used to prove the existence of God? For the Cosmological Argument we argue First Cause; from the Ontological Argument we argue Necessary...
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The more I want God to exist, the more I must question proofs of God’s existence. “Bad arguments for God” scare me. Maybe all the “God...
Episode 01
Season 09