List of Closer to Truth episodes
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS[1][2][3][4] & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. Meaning (God)., launched in 2008, with 14 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series.[5] Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director.[6][7]
The show is centered on on-camera conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars, covering a diverse range of topics or questions from the size and nature of the universe (or multiverse), to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.[8][9][10]
Episodes
Series One: "Closer to Truth"
Season 1 (2000)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 1 | 1 | "What Are the Grand Questions of Science?" | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Timothy Ferris, Francisco Ayala, Patricia Smith Churchland, Steven Koonin |
| 2 | 2 | "Will the Internet Change Humanity?" | Francis Fukuyama, George Geis, Bart Kosko, Bruce Murray |
| 3 | 3 | "What’s Creativity and Who’s Creative?" | Stephen J. Cannell, Ray Kurzweil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Freeman, John Kao |
| 4 | 4 | "New Communities for the New Millennium" | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Saru Jayaraman, John McWhorter |
| 5 | 5 | "How Did This Universe Begin?" | Leon Lederman, Andrei Linde, Wendy Freedman, Nancey Murphy, Frank Tipler |
| 6 | 6 | "Can We See the Near Future--Year 2025?" | Edward de Bono, Bart Kosko, Edward Feigenbaum, Graham T. T. Molitor, Bruce Murray |
| 7 | 7 | "What is Consciousness?" | James Trefil, David Chalmers, John Searle, Marilyn Schlitz, Fred Alan Wolf |
| 8 | 8 | "Can You Really Extend Your Life?" | French Anderson, Sherwin Nuland, Arthur S. De Vany, Gregory Stock, Roy Walford |
| 9 | 9 | "Can ESP Affect Your Life?" | James Trefil, Dean Radin, Barry Beyerstein, Marilyn Schlitz, Charles Tart |
| 10 | 10 | "Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?" | Bruce Chapman, Saru Jayaraman, John McWhorter, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Richard Mouw |
| 11 | 11 | "How Does Technology Transform Thinking?" | Francis Fukuyama, Marvin Minsky, Bart Kosko, Bruce Murray, George Kozmetsky |
| 12 | 12 | "Strange Physics of the Mind?" | Gregory Benford, James Trefil, David Chalmers, John Searle, Fred Alan Wolf |
| 13 | 13 | "Can Science Seek the Soul?" | Warren S. Brown, Dean Radin, Charles Tart, John Searle, Fred Alan Wolf |
| 14 | 14 | "Does Sex Have a Future?" | Cliff Penner, Joyce Penner, Paul Abramson, Vern Bullough, Gregory Stock |
Season 2 (2000)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 15 | 1 | "Can We Imagine the Far Future—Year 3000?" | Edward de Bono, Bart Kosko, Graham T. T. Molitor, Bruce Murray |
| 16 | 2 | "How Do Breakthroughs Change Science?" | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Timothy Ferris, Francisco Ayala, Patricia Smith Churchland, Rochel Gelman |
| 17 | 3 | "How Does Creativity Work at Work?" | Stephen J. Cannell, Ray Kurzweil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Freeman, John Kao |
| 18 | 4 | "Do Brains Make Minds?" | David Chalmers, John Searle, Marilyn Schlitz, Fred Alan Wolf, Barry Beyerstein |
| 19 | 5 | "Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?" | Francisco Ayala, French Anderson, Sherwin Nuland, Gregory Stock, Allan Tobin |
| 20 | 6 | "Why are Music and Art So Exhilarating?" | Ray Kurzweil, Rhoda Janzen, Todd Boyd, Todd Siler, Robert Freeman |
| 21 | 7 | "Why is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?" | Leon Lederman, Andrei Linde, Steve Koonin, Gregory Benford, Charles Buchanan |
| 22 | 8 | "How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?" | Edward de Bono, Graham T. T. Molitor, Bruce Murray, Edward Feigenbaum, Sherwin Nuland |
| 23 | 9 | "Who Needs Sex Therapy?" | Cliff Penner, Joyce Penner, Sherwin Nuland, Paul Abramson, Vern Bullough |
| 24 | 10 | "Can Technology Transform Society?" | Francis Fukuyama, Marvin Minsky, George Kozmetsky, Gregory Benford, Gregory Stock |
| 25 | 11 | "Can You Learn to Be Creative?" | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, John Kao, Todd Siler, Rhoda Janzen |
| 26 | 12 | "What is Parapsychology?" | James Trefil, Dean Radin, Barry Beyerstein, Marilyn Schlitz, Charles Tart |
| 27 | 13 | "When Will This Universe End?" | Leon Lederman, Wendy Freeman, Andrei Linde, Nancey Murphy, Frank Tipler |
| 28 | 14 | "Will Intelligence Fill This Universe?" | Leon Lederman, Franciso Ayala, Bruce Murray, Frank Tipler, Gregory Benford |
Series Two: "Closer to Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future"
Season 1 (2003)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 1 | 1 | "Is Science Fiction Science?" | Michael Crichton, David Brin, Octavia Butler |
| 2 | 2 | "Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?" | Nancey Murphy, Muzaffar Iqbal, Michael Shermer |
| 3 | 3 | "How Does the Autistic Brain Work?" | Eric Courchesne, Eric Shuman, Terrance Sejnowski, Tito Mukapadhyay, Soma Mukapadhyay, Portia Iversen |
| 4 | 4 | "How Weird is the Cosmos?" | David Goodstein, Alan Guth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Roger Blandford |
| 5 | 5 | "Microbes - Friend or Foe" | Agnes Day, Paul Ewald, Alice Huang, Lucy Shapiro |
| 6 | 6 | "How Does Order Arise in the Universe?" | Murray Gell-Mann, David Baltimore |
| 7 | 7 | "Why is Music So Significant?" | Jeanne Bamberger, Robert Freeman, Mark Jude Tramo |
| 8 | 8 | "Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?" | David DiVincenzo, Seth Lloyd, Birgitta Whaley |
| 9 | 9 | "Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?" | Nancy Andreasen, Robert Epstein, Peter Loewenberg |
| 10 | 10 | "How Does Basic Science Defend America?" | Steven Koonin, Llewellyn “Doc” Dougherty, David Herrelko |
| 11 | 11 | "Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?" | Hyla Cass, William Jarvis, Daniel Labriola, Wallace Sampson |
| 12 | 12 | "Is Consciousness Definable?" | Joseph Bogen, Christof Koch, Leslie Brothers, Stuart Hameroff |
| 13 | 13 | "Is the Universe Full of Life?" | Shri Kulkarni, Bruce Murray, Neil deGrasse Tyson, |
| 14 | 14 | "Can Religion Withstand Technology?" | Donald Miller, Muzaffar Iqbal, Michael Shermer |
| 15 | 15 | "Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?" | Alexander Capron, Andrea Kovacs, Robert Temple |
Series Three: "Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God."
Season 1 (2008)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 1 | 1 | "Does God Make Sense?" | Richard Swinburne, Alvin Plantinga, Daniel Dennett, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Varadaraja V. Raman, Houston Smith, Michael Shermer |
| 2 | 2 | "How Vast is the Cosmos?" | Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Paul Davies |
| 3 | 3 | "Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?" | Ven Yifa, Susan Blackmore, Keith Ward, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, John Searle, Colin McGinn |
| 4 | 4 | "Did Our Universe have a Beginning?" | Wendy Freedman, Alan Guth, George Smoot, Alexander Vilenkin, Martin Rees |
| 5 | 5 | "How are Brains Structured?" | Arnold Scheibel, Carmine Clemente, John Schlag, Christof Koch, Michael Merzenich, Rodolfo Llinas |
| 6 | 6 | "Arguing God's Existence" | Keith Ward, Owen Gingerich, William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Alvin Plantinga, Steven Weinberg |
| 7 | 7 | "Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?" | John A. Leslie, Steven Weinberg, David Gross, John Polkinghorne, Robin Collins, Paul Davies |
| 8 | 8 | "Do Persons have Souls?" | JP Moreland, Nancey Murphy, Richard Swinburne, Daniel Dennett, Peter van Inwagen, Houston Smith |
| 9 | 9 | "Arguing God from Design" | Richard Swinburne, Bede Rundle, Steven Weinberg, William Dembski, Francisco Ayala, Michael Shermer, Freeman Dyson |
| 10 | 10 | "Could Our Universe Be a Fake?" | David Brin, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, Martin Rees |
| 11 | 11 | "Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical?" | Marilyn Schlitz, Charles Tart, Susan Blackmore, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, Michael Shermer |
| 12 | 12 | "Arguing God from First Cause" | William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith, Alister McGrath, David Shatz, Charles Harper, Jr., Peter van Inwagen |
| 13 | 13 | "Can Science Deal With God?" | Lawrence Krauss, Francis Collins, Robert John Russell, Ian Barbour, Freeman Dyson, Michio Kaku |
Season 2 (2008)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 14 | 1 | "Is There Life After Death?" | Stephen Braude, Michael Tooley, JP Moreland, Nancey Murphy, David Shatz, Master Hsing Yun |
| 15 | 2 | "Arguing God from Morality" | JP Moreland, Richard Swinburne, Francis Collins, Michael Tooley, Michael Shermer |
| 16 | 3 | "How Many Universes Exist?" | Andrei Linde, Alan Guth, Martin Rees, Leonard Susskind, Max Tegmark, Steven Weinberg |
| 17 | 4 | "Can Brain Explain Mind?" | Christof Koch, Rodolfo Llinas, Ray Kurzweil, John Searle, David Chalmers |
| 18 | 5 | "What is the Mind-Body Problem?" | John Searle, Ned Block, JP Moreland, Marvin Minsky, Colin McGinn |
| 19 | 6 | "Is Time Travel Possible?" | Michio Kaku, J. Richard Gott, Kip Thorne, Fred Alan Wolf, Seth Lloyd |
| 20 | 7 | "Did God Create Time?" | Brian Leftow, John Polkinghorne, Ernan McMullin, William Lane Craig, Varadaraja V Raman, Robert John Russell |
| 21 | 8 | "Does Evil Disprove God?" | Peter van Inwagen, Quentin Smith, Alvin Plantinga, Michael Tooley, Richard Swinburne |
| 22 | 9 | "Why are Black Holes Astonishing?" | Kip Thorne, Leonard Susskind, Juan Maldacena, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lee Smolin |
| 23 | 10 | "What is Free Will?" | Peter van Inwagen, John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Alan Leshner, Susan Blackmore, Christof Koch |
| 24 | 11 | "Arguments for Atheism" | Michael Tooley, Daniel Dennett, Richard Swinburne, Nancey Murphy,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 25 | 12 | "How Could God Interact with the World?" | Robert John Russell, John Polkinghorne, Paul Davies, Alvin Plantinga, Ernan McMullin |
| 26 | 13 | "What's the Far Future of Intelligence in the Universe?" | Freeman Dyson, Lawrence Krauss, Ray Kurzweil, Frank Tipler, Robin Collins, Paul Davies |
Season 3 (2009)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 27 | 1 | "How Could God Know the Future?" | Russell Stannard, John Polkinghorne, Ernan McMullin, Greg Boyd, William Lane Craig |
| 28 | 2 | "Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?" | Martin Rees, Leonard Susskind, Alexander Vilenkin, Russell Stennard, Roger Penrose |
| 29 | 3 | "How does Beauty Color the Cosmos?" | Peter Atkins, Roger Penrose, Stephon Alexander, Fotini Markopoulou, Frank Wilczek, Freeman Dyson |
| 30 | 4 | "What Things Really Exist?" | Roger Penrose, Peter van Inwagen, John Searle, William Lane Craig, John Leslie |
| 31 | 5 | "Where are They, All Those Aliens?" | Jill Tarter, Doug Vakoch, Frank Drake, Ray Kurzweil, Francisco Ayala, Steven Dick, David Brin |
| 32 | 6 | "Why is There “Something” Rather than “Nothing”?" | John Leslie, Peter van Inwagen, Bede Rundle, Quentin Smith, Richard Swinburne, Steven Weinberg |
| 33 | 7 | "Can Many Religions All be True?" | Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Arthur Hyman, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Ananda Guruge, Varadaraja V Raman |
| 34 | 8 | "Is Consciousness Fundamental?" | David Chalmers, John Searle, Marilyn Schlitz, Varadaraja V Raman, Paul Davies, Andrei Linde |
| 35 | 9 | "Is There A Final Theory of Everything?" | Steven Weinberg, David Gross, Robert Laughlin, Stephen Wolfram, Frank Wilczek |
| 36 | 10 | "How can Emergence Explain Reality?" | Robert Laughlin, Peter Atkins, Francisco Ayala, Stephen Wolfram, Philip Clayton |
| 37 | 11 | "Is This the End Time?" | James Tabor, Robert Saucy, Nancey Murphy, Arthur Hyman, Greg Boyd |
| 38 | 12 | "Eternal Life is Like What?" | Richard Swinburne, JP Moreland, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Varadaraja V Raman, Houston Smith |
| 39 | 13 | "Do Science & Religion Conflict?" | Daniel Dennett, Owen Gingerich, Marvin Minsky, Francisco Ayala, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Davies |
Season 4 (2009)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 40 | 1 | "Why is Consciousness Baffling?" | Charles Tart, Roger Walsh, Ray Kurzweil, Hubert Dreyfus, Alva Noe, Henry Stapp, George Lakoff |
| 41 | 2 | "What is God Like?" | Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, Neil Gillman, Richard Swinburne, Houston Smith |
| 42 | 3 | "What does an Expanding Universe Mean?" | Alan Guth, Paul Steinhardt, Saul Perlmutter, George F. R. Ellis, Andrei Linde |
| 43 | 4 | "Is the Person All Material?" | Daniel Dennett, Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, John Searle, David Chalmers |
| 44 | 5 | "Arguments Against God?" | Susan Blackmore, Peter Atkins, Alvin Plantinga, Steven Weinberg, Richard Swinburne, Michael Shermer |
| 45 | 6 | "Are there Extra Dimensions?" | Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, David Gross, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Juan Maldacena, Roger Penrose |
| 46 | 7 | "Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?" | Steven Dick, Russell Stannard, Paul Davies, Robin Collins, Jill Tarter, Doug Vakoch |
| 47 | 8 | "Did God Create Evil?" | Nancey Murphy, Greg Boyd, Mahmoud Ayoub, Varadaraja V Raman, Keith Ward |
| 48 | 9 | "Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?" | Roger Penrose, Mark Balaguer, Gregory Chaitin, Stephen Wolfram, Frank Wilczek |
| 49 | 10 | "Do Angels and Demons Exist?" | JP Moreland, Thomas Flint, Dean Radin, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, James Tabor |
| 50 | 11 | "Why the Laws of Nature?" | Martin Rees, Steven Weinberg, Freeman Dyson, Peter Atkins, Lee Smolin, Bas van Fraassen |
| 51 | 12 | "What is God's Judgment?" | John Polkinghorne, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Varadaraja V Raman, Ven Yifa, Robert John Russell |
| 52 | 13 | "Why the Cosmos?" | Owen Gingerich, Ray Kurzweil, Max Tegmark, John Polkinghorne, Steven Dick, Paul Davies |
Season 5 (2010)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 53 | 1 | "How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?" | Rodolfo Llinas, John Mazziotta, Joseph LeDoux, Michael Merzenich, Eran Zaidel |
| 54 | 2 | "Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?" | Robin Collins, Victor Stenger, Ernan McMullin, Michio Kaku |
| 55 | 3 | "Wondering About God" | Keith Ward, Mahmoud Ayoub, Neil Gillman, Ananda Guruge, John Leslie, William Grassie, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Davies, Alvin Plantinga |
| 56 | 4 | "What is the Far Far Future of the Universe?" | Martin Rees, Wendy Freedman, Abraham Loeb, Alexander Vilenkin, Robert John Russell |
| 57 | 5 | "Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?" | Ned Block, Dean Zimmerman, Colin McGinn, Charles Tart, Henry Stapp |
| 58 | 6 | "How is God the Creator?" | William Lane Craig, John Polkinghorne, Brian Leftow |
| 59 | 7 | "What would Multiple Universes Mean?" | Max Tegmark, Anthony Aguirre, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Renata Kallosh, Paul Davies |
| 60 | 8 | "What Things are Conscious?" | John Searle, Ray Kurzweil, JP Moreland, Marilyn Schlitz, Rupert Sheldrake |
| 61 | 9 | "Can Religion be Explained Without God?" | Daniel Dennett, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Susan Blackmore, Denis Alexander, Michael Shermer |
| 62 | 10 | "What's Real About Time?" | Greg Benford, Kip Thorne, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lee Smolin |
| 63 | 11 | "How do Persons Maintain Their Identity?" | Colin McGinn, Susan Blackmore, Ray Kurzweil, John Polkinghorne, Peter van Inwagen |
| 64 | 12 | "Is God a "Person"?" | Thomas Flint, JP Moreland, Neil Gillman, Varadaraja V Raman, Philip Clayton |
| 65 | 13 | "Asking Ultimate Questions" | Lawrence Krauss, John Leslie, Max Tegmark, Paul Davies |
Season 6 (2010)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 66 | 1 | "Arguing God from Natural Theology?" | John Polkinghorne, Victor Stenger, William Dembski, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Owen Gingerich |
| 67 | 2 | "What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?" | J. Richard Gott, Abraham Loeb, George Smoot, Saul Perlmutter |
| 68 | 3 | "Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?" | Stephen Braude, Marilyn Schlitz, Dean Radin, Robert Park, Charles Tart |
| 69 | 4 | "Is God All Knowing?" | William Lane Craig, John Leslie, Thomas Flint, Robert John Russell |
| 70 | 5 | "Why is the Quantum So Strange?" | Wojciech Zurek, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lee Smolin, Seth Lloyd |
| 71 | 6 | "Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?" | Colin McGinn, Peter van Inwagen, Philip Clayton, George Lakoff, Dean Zimmerman |
| 72 | 7 | "Is God Necessary?" | Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, Richard Swinburne, Bede Rundle, David Shatz |
| 73 | 8 | "Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?" | Victor Stenger, Richard Swinburne, Robin Collins, Russell Stannard |
| 74 | 9 | "Do Human Brains Have Free Will?" | John Searle, Rodolfo Llinas, Christof Koch, Eran Zaidel, Roger Walsh, Michael Merzenich, Henry Stapp, Colin McGinn |
| 75 | 10 | "Arguing for Agnosticism?" | Mark Vernon, Nick Bostrom, Denis Alexander, Leonard Susskind, John Searle |
| 76 | 11 | "Are Science & Religion at War?" | Philip Clayton, William Dembski, Bas van Fraassen, Robert John Russell |
| 77 | 12 | "Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?" | David Chalmers, Alexander Vilenkin, David Brin, Colin McGinn, Paul Davies |
| 78 | 13 | "A New Heaven & A New Earth?" | Nancey Murphy, Arthur Hyman, Robin Collins, John Polkinghorne, Robert John Russell |
Season 7 (2011)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 79 | 1 | "How To Think About God's Existence" | Philip Clayton, Victor Stenger, Robert John Russell, Michael Shermer, David Shatz, Peter van Inwagen |
| 80 | 2 | "Why is the Universe Breathtaking?" | Frank Wilczek, Steven Weinberg, David Finkelstein, Seth Lloyd, Freeman Dyson, Saul Perlmutter |
| 81 | 3 | "What is the Meaning of Consciousness?" | Ned Block, Marvin Minsky, Alva Noe, Jaron Lanier, Colin McGinn |
| 82 | 4 | "Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations" | William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard Swinburne, Bede Rundle, Francis Collins |
| 83 | 5 | "Marvels of Space-Time" | Max Tegmark, J. Richard Gott, Juan Maldacena, Fotini Markopoulou, John Leslie |
| 84 | 6 | "What Makes Brains Conscious?" | Arnold Scheibel, John Mazziotta, Christof Koch, Joseph LeDoux, Stephen Chorover |
| 85 | 7 | "Is God Perfect?" | Brian Leftow, Richard Swinburne, JP Moreland, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Keith Ward, Philip Clayton |
| 86 | 8 | "What are the Scope and Limits of Science?" | Frank Wilczek, J. Richard Gott, Stephen Wolfram, Bas van Fraassen, Owen Gingerich |
| 87 | 9 | "Is Human Consciousness Special?" | Marvin Minsky, Roger Walsh, Marilyn Schlitz, Colin McGinn, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen |
| 88 | 10 | "If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?" | Alvin Plantinga, Thomas Flint, Peter van Inwagen, Dean Zimmerman |
| 89 | 11 | "Can Science Talk God?" | David Gross, William Dembski, Victor Stenger, Gregory Chaitin, George Smoot |
| 90 | 12 | "Do Persons Survive Death?" | Charles Tart, Richard Swinburne, Robert Park, James Tabor, Keith Ward |
| 91 | 13 | "Is Theism Coherent?" | Richard Swinburne, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Quentin Smith |
Season 8 (2011)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 92 | 1 | "Is Evil Necessary in God’s World?" | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard Swinburn, Robin Collins, David Shatz, Robert John Russell |
| 93 | 2 | "What's Beyond Physics?" | Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Rupert Sheldrake, Paul Davies, David Chalmers |
| 94 | 3 | "Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?" | Marilyn Schlitz, Dean Radin, Fred Alan Wolf, Michael Tooley, Alan Leshner |
| 95 | 4 | "Arguing God from Consciousness" | JP Moreland, Bede Rundle, Richard Swinburne, Quentin Smith, Colin McGinn |
| 96 | 5 | "Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?" | Saul Perlmutter, Roger Penrose, Paul Steinhardt, Martin Rees, Frank Drake |
| 97 | 6 | "What Maintains Personal Identity?" | John Searle, Christof Koch, Rodolfo Llinas, Stephen Braude, Michael Tooley |
| 98 | 7 | "Arguing God from Being" | Peter van Inwagen, Alister McGrath, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Michael Tooley, Alvin Plantinga |
| 99 | 8 | "Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?" | Ernan McMullin, Frank Wilczek, Francis Collins, Paul Davies, Bruce Murray |
| 100 | 9 | "What's Wrong with Immortal Souls?" | Keith Ward, Neil Gillman, Ananda Guruge, Dean Zimmerman, Philip Clayton |
| 101 | 10 | "Does God have a Nature?" | Brian Leftow, Keith Ward, Bede Rundle, David Shatz, Alvin Plantingan |
| 102 | 11 | "Are There Things Not Material?" | Colin McGinn, JP Moreland, Ananda Guruge, Marvin Minsky, David Chalmers |
| 103 | 12 | "How Free is God?" | Richard Swinburne, Brian Leftow, Peter van Inwagen, Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig |
| 104 | 13 | "Immortality and Eternal Life" | Russell Stannard, Neil Gillman, Thomas Flint, Robin Collins, Ananda Guruge |
Season 9 (2012)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 105 | 1 | "Fallacies in Proving God Exists" | Peter Atkins, Victor Stenger, Michael Tooley, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Denis Alexander |
| 106 | 2 | "Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Cosmos?" | J. Richard Gott, Frank Wilczek, Robert Laughlin, Ray Kurzweil, Robert John Russell, Peter van Inwagen |
| 107 | 3 | "Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy" | Richard Swinburne, Philip Clayton, Bede Rundle, Richard Swinburne |
| 108 | 4 | "What Would Alien Intelligences Mean?" | Martin Rees, Frank Drake, Lawrence Krauss, Greg Benford, Jaron Lanier |
| 109 | 5 | "What God the Creator Means / How Does a Creator God Work?" | Alister McGrath, Keith Ward, William Dembski, Varadaraja V Raman, William Lane Craig, James Tabor |
| 110 | 6 | "Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation" | Alexander Vilenkin, Alan Guth, Paul Steinhardt, Andrei Linde, Saul Perlmutter |
| 111 | 7 | "How is God All Powerful?" | Brian Leftow, Bede Rundle, John Leslie, Thomas Flint, Greg Boyd |
| 112 | 8 | "Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?" | John Searle, Hubert Dreyfus, Bas van Fraassen, Steven Weinberg, Daniel Dennett, Ned Block |
| 113 | 9 | "Complexity from Simplicity?" | Stephen Wolfram, Seth Lloyd, Lee Smolin, Francis Collins, Frank Wilczek |
| 114 | 10 | "Do Humans have Free Will?" | Ned Block, David Gross, Stephen Wolfram, Nancey Murphy, JP Moreland, Jaron Lanier |
| 115 | 11 | "What's God About?" | Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, Ian Barbour, John Leslie, Keith Ward |
| 116 | 12 | "Does Consciousness lead to God?" | Keith Ward, Susan Blackmore, Varadaraja V Raman, Paul Davies, John Leslie |
| 117 | 13 | "The Mystery of Existence" | Michio Kaku, Bede Rundle, John Leslie, Hubert Dreyfus |
Season 10 (2012)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 118 | 1 | "Is the Universe Religiously Ambiguous?" | Sean Carroll, Bernard Carr, Martin Rees, Chris Isham, J. L. Schellenberg |
| 119 | 2 | "Is Consciousness an Illusion?" | Nicholas Humphrey, Julian Baggini, Rebecca Goldstein, Galen Strawson, A. C. Grayling, Raymond Tallis |
| 120 | 3 | "What is God?" | John Polkinghorne, John Behr, John Hick, J. L. Schellenberg, Timothy O'Connor |
| 121 | 4 | "Do General Principles Govern All Science?" | Geoffrey West, Martin Rees, Stuart Kauffman, Holmes Rolston, David Deutsch |
| 122 | 5 | "Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?" | David Eagleman, Nicholas Humphrey, Richard Swinburne, Raymond Tallis, Robert Stickgold |
| 123 | 6 | "Current Arguments for God" | Rebecca Goldstein, Julian Barbour, John Polkinghorne, Robin Collins, A. C. Grayling, Yujin Nagasawa, Alvin Plantinga |
| 124 | 7 | "Why Science and Religion Think Differently" | Neils Gregerson, Holmes Rolston, Chris Southgate, Celia Deanne-Drummond, A. C. Grayling |
| 125 | 8 | "What are Dreams About?" | Robert Stickgold, Dierdre Barrett, Chris Isham, Patrick McNamara |
| 126 | 9 | "Can God Face Up Evil?" | John Hick, Stephen Law, Paul Fiddes, A. C. Grayling, Robert John Russell |
| 127 | 10 | "How Belief Systems Work" | Julian Baggini, Stephen Law, Patrick McNamara, Gregory Ganssle, Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Shermer |
| 128 | 11 | "Do Religions Complement or Contradict?" | John Hick, Yujin Nagasawam, John Behr, Sarah Coakley, Mahmoud Ayoub |
| 129 | 12 | "Why is Free Will a Mystery?" | John Searle, Richard Swinburne, Ned Block, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Al Mele, Thalia Wheatley, Jenann Ismael, Adina Roskies, Tim Bayne, David Hunt, Alvin Plantinga |
| 130 | 13 | "Does Brain Science Abolish Free Will?" | Galen Strawson, Al Mele, Christof Koch, Uri Maoz, Richard Swinburne, Colin McGinn |
Season 11 (2013)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 131 | 1 | "Time at Sea" | Max Tegmark, Huw Price, Dean Rickies, Fotini Markopoulou, Andreas Albrecht, Garrett Lisi, Raphael Bousso, Scott Aaronson, Craig Callender, David Eagleman, David Albert, Julian Barbour, Sean Carroll |
| 132 | 2 | "What is Time?" | Huw Price, Julian Barbour, David Albert, Jeff Tollaksen, John Polkinghorne |
| 133 | 3 | "Why Believe in God?" | Sarah Coakley, A. C. Grayling, Chris Isham, Michael Shermer |
| 134 | 4 | "Alternative Concepts of God" | Yujin Nagasawa, Marcel Sarot, Willem B. Drees, John Bishop, Eric Steinhart, Brian Leftow |
| 135 | 5 | "Pantheism: Is the World God?" | Michael Levin, Peter Forrest, John Leslie, J. l. Schellenberg, Richard Swinburne |
| 136 | 6 | "How Do Brains Work?" | Christopher Evans, Kelsey Martin, Bob Bilder, Jared Diamond, Rodney Brooks |
| 137 | 7 | "What would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?" | Martin Rees, Anthony Aguirre, Raphael Bousso, Sean Carroll, Joshua Knobe |
| 138 | 8 | "What is God’s Eternity?" | Paul Davies, Eleonore Stump, Gregory Ganssle, William Lane Craig, Robert Spitzer, Robert John Russell |
| 139 | 9 | "Why is Free Will a Big Question?" | Al Mele, Eddy Nahmias, Tim Bayne, Bertram Malle, Joshua Knobe, Roy Baumeister |
| 140 | 10 | "Is Free Will an Illusion?" | Daniel Dennett, Al Mele, Patrick Haggard, Thalia Wheatley, Timothy O'Connor, Peter van Inwagen |
| 141 | 11 | "What's in a Resurrection?" | Edward Wierenga, Sarah Coakley, John Behr, Arthur Hyman, Timothy O'Connor |
| 142 | 12 | "Does Hell Reveal God?" | Edward Wierenga, Richard Swinburne, Paul Fiddes, John Behr, Eleonore Stump |
| 143 | 13 | "Confronting Consciousness" | Christof Koch, David Eagleman, Keith Ward, Warren S. Brown, Tim Bayne, Raymond Tallis |
Season 12 (2013)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 144 | 1 | "Did the Universe have a Beginning?" | Anthony Aguirre, Andreas Albrecht, Rodney Holder, Dirk Evers, Lenonard Mlodinow |
| 145 | 2 | "How Humans Differ from (Other) Animals" | Colin Blakemore, Barry Smith, Nicholas Humphrey, Jared Diamond, Justin L. Barrett |
| 146 | 3 | "What would it Feel Like to be God?" | Brian Leftow, Keith Ward, John Polkinghorne, Gregory Ganselle, Peter Forrest |
| 147 | 4 | "What's the New Atheism?" | Michael Shermer, Alister McGrath, Lawrence Krauss, Keith Ward, A. C. Grayling |
| 148 | 5 | "How does Personal Identity Persist through Time?" | Simon Blackburn, Stephen Law, Richard Swinburne, Joseph LeDoux, Bob Bilder, Roger Walsh |
| 149 | 6 | "Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?" | Alvin Plantinga, Eleonore Stump, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, David Shatz, Michael Tooley |
| 150 | 7 | "Why Do We Sleep?" | Robert Stickgold, Patrick McNamara, Dierdre Barrett, Nicholas Humphrey |
| 151 | 8 | "Does Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?" | Bernard Carr, David Deutsch, Richard Swinburne, Rodney Holder, Chris Isham |
| 152 | 9 | "Why Obsess about Free Will?" | Patrick Haggard, Peter Tse, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Alison Gopnik |
| 153 | 10 | "Why Seek an Alternative God?" | Robin Le Poidevin, Andrei Buckareff, Peter Forrest, Sarah Coakley |
| 154 | 11 | "Panentheism: Is the World in God?" | Philip Clayton, Marcel Sarot, Michael Levin, Yujin Nagasawa, Sarah Coakley, Alister McGrath |
| 155 | 12 | "What is Nothing?" | Richard Swinburne, Simon Blackburn, Peter van Inwagen, Steven Weinberg, John Leslie, Timothy O'Connor, Robert Spitzer, Victor Stenger, John Hawthorne |
| 156 | 13 | "Why Anything at All?" | John Leslie, Bede Rundle, Max Tegmark, Simon Blackburn, Quentin Smith, Victor Stenger, Peter Forrest, John Leslie, Peter van Inwagen, John Polkinghorne, Richard Swinburne, Paul Davies |
Season 13 (2014)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 157 | 1 | “What is Ultimate Reality?” | Yujin Nagasawa, David Deutsch, Christof Koch, Julian Baggini, Stephen Law |
| 158 | 2 | “What is Consciousness?” | Simon Blackburn, Susan Greenfield, Christof Koch, Bruce Hood, Roy Baumeister |
| 159 | 3 | “Is This God?” | Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Brian Leftow, John Cottingham, Paul Fiddes, Alister McGrath |
| 160 | 4 | “Will the Universe Ever End?” | Michio Kaku, Max Tegmark, Saul Perlmutter, Alan Guth, Ken Olum |
| 161 | 5 | “Can the Divine Be a Person?” | Oliver D. Crisp, John Behr, J. L. Schellenberg, Deepak Chopra, Edward Wierenga |
| 162 | 6 | “Is Death Final?” | Greg Boyd, John Hick, Deepak Chopra, Warren S. Brown, Eric Steinhart |
| 163 | 7 | “What Causes Religious Belief?” | Colin Blakemore, Thalia Wheatley, Justin L. Barrett, Bruce Hood, Elizabeth Loftus, Warren S. Brown, Jared Diamond, J. L. Schellenberg, Stuart Kauffman |
| 164 | 8 | “What Things Are Real?” | John Hawthorne, Chris Isham, Galen Strawson, George Ellis |
| 165 | 9 | “Free Will for Moral Responsibility?” | Al Mele, Thalia Wheatley, Patrick Haggard, Roy Baumeister, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 166 | 10 | “What Can We Learn From Alternative Gods?” | Willem B. Drees, Yujin Nagasawa, Eric Steinhart, John Bishop, J. L. Schellenberg |
| 167 | 11 | “Why God, Not Nothing?” | John Leslie, John Polkinghorne, Peter van Inwagen, Robin Le Poidevin, Robert Spitzer, Menas Kafatos, Deepak Chopra |
| 168 | 12 | “Does God’s Knowledge Ruin Free Will?” | Peter van Inwagen, Brian Leftow, Hugh McCann |
| 169 | 13 | "What Limits God’s Freedom?” | Brian Leftow, Peter van Inwagen, Dean Zimmerman |
Season 14 (2015)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 170 | 1 | “Can the Mind Heal the Body?” | Deepak Chopra, Rudolph Tanzil Elissa Epel, Gino Yu, P. Murali Doraiswamy |
| 171 | 2 | “Is God Responsible for Evil” | Dean Zimmerman, Holmes Rolston III, Jesse Couenhoven, John Bishop, Keith Ward |
| 172 | 3 | “What is Information” | Max Tegmark, Paul Davies, Seth Lloyd, Guilio Tononi, Scott Aaronson |
| 173 | 4 | “Can Design Point to God?” | Owen Gingerich, Ernan McMullin, Colin McGinn, Paul Davies |
| 174 | 5 | “What is Truth?” | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, John Hawthorne, John Hick, Michael Shermer |
| 175 | 6 | “Does Information Create the Cosmos?” | Seth Lloyd, Sean Carroll, Raphael Bousso, Alan Guth, Christof Koch |
| 176 | 7 | “Why Body in a Resurrection?” | Eleonore Stump, Dean Zimmerman, Peter Van Inwagen, Eric Steinhart |
| 177 | 8 | “Must Multiple Universes Exist?” | Alexander Vilenkin, Alan Guth, Raphael Bousso, Max Tegmark, Don Page, Paul Davies |
| 178 | 9 | “Toward a Science of Consciousness?” | Stuart Hameroff, David Chalmers, John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Deepak Chopra, Susan Blackmore, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein |
| 179 | 10 | “Big Questions in Free Will Part 1” | Al Mele, Galen Strawson, John Searle, Peter Van Inwagen, Christof Koch, Uri Maoz, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong, Thalia Wheatley, Peter Tse |
| 180 | 11 | “Big Questions in Free Will Part 2” | Bertram Malle, Eddy Nahmias, Roy Baumeister, Patrick Haggard, Adina Roskies, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong, Al Mele |
| 181 | 12 | “Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?” | Dean Zimmerman, David Hunt, Katherin Rogers, Jesse Couenhoven |
| 182 | 13 | "How Can God Not Be Free?” | Michael Almeida, Hugh McCann, Matthews Grant, David Hunt |
Season 15 (2015)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 183 | 1 | “Does the Cosmos have a Reason?” | Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Jill Tarter, Douglas Vakoch, Russell Stannard, Frank Wilczeck |
| 184 | 2 | “Can the Cosmos have a Reason?” | Alexander Vilenkin, John Polkinghorne, Michael Shermer, Stephen Wolfram, Stuart Kauffman |
| 185 | 3 | “Implications of Cosmology” | Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, George F. Smoot III, Robert Spitzer, Jill Tarter, Douglas Vakoch |
| 186 | 4 | “What Is It About God?” | Peter Van Inwagen, Timothy O'Connor, Keith Ward, John Polkinghorne, Hugh McCann, John Leslie, Robin LePoidevin, Christopher Knight, Robert John Russell |
| 187 | 5 | “Speculating About God?” | Peter Forrest, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Neil N. Gillman, Subhash Kak, J. L. Schellenberg, Michael Tooley |
| 188 | 6 | “How Could God Intervene in the Universe?” | Niels Henrik Gregerson, Dirk Evers, Christopher Southgate, David Shatz, Andrei Buckareff, Edward Wierenga |
| 189 | 7 | “What Could ESP Mean?” | Charles T. Tart, Dean Radin, Bruce Hood, John Hick, Susan Blackmore |
| 190 | 8 | “How Could ESP Work?” | Brian Josephson, Lawrence M. Krauss, Michael Shermer, Charles T. Tart, Dean Radin |
| 191 | 9 | “How to Argue for God?” | Alister McGrath, Russell Stannard, Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Timothy O'Connor, Steven Weinberg |
| 192 | 10 | “Does God Know Everything?” | Edward Wierenga, Peter van Inwagen, Brian Leftow, David Hunt, Yujin Nagasawa |
| 193 | 11 | “What is Causation?” | Simon Blackburn, Richard Swinburne, Robin Le Poidevin, Huw Price, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 194 | 12 | “Does Dualism Explain Consciousness?” | Yujin Nagasawa, Richard Swinburne, Jaron Lanier, Bede Rundle, Peter Forrest |
| 195 | 13 | "Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?” | Deepak Chopra, Donald Hoffman, Neil Theise, Fred Alan Wolf, Frank J. Tipler, Charles T. Tart |
Season 16 (2016)
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Episode Title[11] | Featured Guest / Contributor |
| 197 | 1 | "When Brains Go Bad?” | Barry Smith, Donald Hoffman, Susan Greenfield, Christopher Evans, Deirdre Barrett |
| 198 | 2 | "What Is the Doomsday Argument?” | John Leslie, J. Richard Gott III, Nick Bostrom, Martin Rees |
| 199 | 3 | "How Could God Make Miracles?” | Paul Fiddes, Hugh McCann, William A. Dembski, Rodney Holder, Keith Ward |
| 200 | 4 | "How Do Consciousness and Language Relate?” | John Searle, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Ned Block, Barry Smith, Colin Blakemore |
| 201 | 5 | "Can God and Science Mix?” | Willem B. Drees, J. Richard Gott III, David Finkelstein, Rodolfo Llinás, Don Page |
| 202 | 6 | "Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?” | John Cottingham, John Bishop, Julian Baggini, Jeff Schloss |
| 203 | 7 | "Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?” | John Searle, David Chalmers |
| 204 | 8 | "Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?” | Colin McGinn, Dean Radin, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Ken Mogi |
| 205 | 9 | "Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism” | Ned Block, Rodney Brooks, Marilyn Schlitz, William A. Dembski, Eric Schwitzgebel |
| 206 | 10 | "Fallacies in Arguing for God?” | Francis S. Collins, Francisco J. Ayala, Richard Swinburne, J. L. Schellenberg, Michael Shermer |
| 207 | 11 | "What Is Philosophy of Science?” | Simon Blackburn, John Hawthorne, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, John Searle, Daniel Dennett |
| 208 | 12 | "Does Philosophy Help Science?” | Steven Weinberg, Paul Davies, Colin Blakemore, Scott Aaronson |
| 209 | 13 | "A Tribute to Marvin Minsky” | Marvin Minsky |
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