What is the deep nature of the world? What is the role of value? What goes beyond the physical world? What is fundamental reality? We explore Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,...
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How can we have confidence in what we know or believe? What is knowledge? What is belief? How is belief justified? And is justified belief knowledge? How can we not doubt...
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Episode 07
Season 18
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Stories of ‘near death experiences’ (NDEs) are legion, affecting all cultures and peoples. NDEs have similarities—white lights, tunnels, spirit beings, feelings...
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To claim God is the Creator is to assume the burden of explaining why God selected and created this particular world. What are the characteristics of this world that could...
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What are anti-realists and why do they deny objective reality? What we know of the world must come through our senses and be processed by our brains. Both can be unreliable;...
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The Judeo-Christian scriptures tell of “a new heaven and a new earth,” when all shall be made new. What could this mean? Could this ever make sense? Believers...
Episode 13
Season 06
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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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1:10:58
Is the ‘real you’ a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone...
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Almost all religions use art in their sacred spaces and many use art forms in their worship rituals. Certainly, there is powerful social cohesion at work. Can...
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Arguments for God, and against God, each call the universe as witness and each submits the universe as evidence. Believers invoke our universe’s fine-tuning. Deniers...
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God is supposed to have perfect knowledge, which includes all true statements about the future. Does this mean that God knows everything about what is to come? But if the...
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Season 03
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