Closer to Truth
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Closer to Truth

📅 2000 ⭐ 6.0
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Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & 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. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director. 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, to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 14 episodes ▼
E1
What are the Grand Questions of Science? 2000-05-07
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E2
Will the Internet Change Humanity? 2000-05-14
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E3
What's Creativity and Who's Creative? 2000-05-21
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E4
New Communities for the New Millennium? 2000-05-28
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E5
How Did This Universe Begin? 2000-06-04
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E6
Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025? 2000-06-11
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E7
What Is Consciousness? 2000-06-18
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E8
Can You Really Extend Your Life? 2000-06-25
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E9
Can ESP Affect Our Lives? 2000-07-02
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E10
Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility? 2000-07-09
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E11
How Does Technology Transform Thinking? 2000-07-16
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E12
Strange Physics of the Mind? 2000-07-23
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E13
Can Science Seek the Soul? 2000-07-30
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E14
Does Sex Have a Future? 2000-08-06
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Season 2 14 episodes ▼
E1
Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000? 2000-09-10
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E2
What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science? 2000-09-17
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E3
How Does Creativity Work at Work? 2000-09-24
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E4
Do Brains Make Minds? 2000-10-01
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E5
Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race? 2000-10-08
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E6
Why Do We Make Music and Art? 2000-10-15
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E7
Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful? 2000-10-22
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E8
How Did We Think in the Last Millennium? 2000-10-29
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E9
Who Needs Sex Therapy? 2000-11-05
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E10
How Does Technology Transform Society? 2000-11-12
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E11
Can You Learn to Be Creative? 2000-11-19
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E12
What Is Parapsychology? 2000-11-26
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E13
Will This Universe Ever End? 2000-12-03
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E14
Will Intelligence Fill the Universe? 2000-12-10
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Season 3 15 episodes ▼
E1
Is Science Fiction Science? 2003-05-01
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E2
Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion? 2003-05-08
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E3
How Does the Autistic Brain Work? 2003-05-15
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E4
How Weird Is the Cosmos? 2003-05-22
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E5
Microbes - Friend or Foe? 2003-05-29
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E6
How Does Order Arise in the Universe? 2003-06-05
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E7
What Makes Music So Significant? 2003-06-12
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E8
Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap? 2003-06-19
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E9
Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality? 2003-06-26
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E10
How Does Basic Science Defend America? 2003-07-03
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E11
Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine? 2003-07-10
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E12
Is Consciousness Definable? 2003-07-17
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E13
Is the Universe Full of Life? 2003-07-24
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E14
Can Religion Withstand Technology? 2003-07-31
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E15
Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs? 2003-08-07
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Season 4 0 episodes ▼
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Season 5 8 episodes ▼
E1
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
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E2
Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
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E3
Wondering About God
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E4
What's the Far Far Future of the Universe?
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E5
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
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E6
How is God the Creator? 2010-05-06
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E7
What Would Multiple Universes Mean? 2010-05-13
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E8
What Things are Conscious? 2010-05-20
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Season 6 0 episodes ▼
No episodes added yet.
Season 7 0 episodes ▼
No episodes added yet.
Season 8 8 episodes ▼
E6
How Is God the Creator? 2010-05-06
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E7
What Would Multiple Universes Mean? 2010-05-13
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E8
What Things Are Conscious? 2010-05-20
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E9
Can Religion Be Explained Without God? 2010-05-27
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E10
What's Real About Time? 2010-06-03
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E11
How Do People Maintain Their Identity? 2010-06-10
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E12
Is God a Person? 2010-06-17
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E13
Asking Ultimate Questions 2010-06-24
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Season 9 13 episodes ▼
E1
Arguing God From Natural Theology 2010-09-30
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E2
What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe? 2010-10-07
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E3
Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence? 2010-10-14
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E4
Is God All Knowing? 2010-10-21
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E5
Why Is the Quantum So Strange? 2010-10-28
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E6
Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises? 2010-11-04
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E7
Is God Necessary? 2010-11-11
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E8
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God? 2010-11-18
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E9
Do Human Brains Have Free Will? 2010-11-25
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E10
Arguing for Agnosticism? 2010-12-02
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E11
Are Science and Religion at War? 2010-12-09
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E12
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos? 2010-12-16
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E13
A New Heaven and a New Earth? 2010-12-23
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Season 10 12 episodes ▼
E2
Why Is the Universe Breathtaking? 2011-01-06
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E3
Does Consciousness Have Meaning? 2011-01-13
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E4
Arguing God From Miracles? 2011-01-20
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E5
Marvels of Space-Time? 2011-01-27
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E6
What Makes Brains Conscious? 2011-02-03
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E7
Is God Perfect? 2011-02-10
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E8
What Are the Scope and Limits of Science? 2011-02-17
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E9
Is Human Consciousness Special? 2011-02-24
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E10
If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will? 2011-03-03
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E11
Can Science Talk God? 2011-03-10
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E12
Do Persons Survive Death? 2011-03-17
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E13
Is Theism Coherent? 2011-03-24
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Season 11 12 episodes ▼
E2
What's Beyond Physics? 2011-04-07
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E3
Can ESP Reveal a New Reality? 2011-04-14
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E4
Arguing God From Consciousness? 2011-04-21
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E5
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning? 2011-04-28
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E6
What Maintains Personal Identity? 2011-05-05
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E7
Arguing God From Being? 2011-05-12
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E8
Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality? 2011-05-19
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E9
What's Wrong With Immortal Souls? 2011-05-26
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E10
Does God Have a Nature? 2011-06-02
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E11
Are There Things Not Physical? 2011-06-09
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E12
How Free Is God? 2011-06-16
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E13
Immortality and Eternal Life 2011-06-23
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Season 12 13 episodes ▼
E1
Fallacies in Proving God Exists 2011-09-29
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E2
Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe? 2011-10-06
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E3
Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy 2011-10-13
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E4
What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean? 2011-10-20
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E5
Does a Creator God Work? 2011-10-27
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E6
Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation 2011-11-03
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E7
How Is God All Powerful? 2011-11-10
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E8
Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality? 2011-11-17
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E9
Complexity From Simplicity? 2011-11-24
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E10
Do Humans Have Free Will? 2011-12-01
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E11
What Is God About? 2011-12-08
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E12
Does Consciousness Point to God? 2011-12-15
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E13
The Mystery of Existence? 2011-12-22
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Season 13 11 episodes ▼
E2
Is Consciousness an Illusion? 2012-04-05
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E3
What Is God? 2012-04-12
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E4
Do General Principles Govern All Science? 2012-04-19
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E6
Diverse Argument for God 2012-05-03
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E7
Why Science and Religion Think Differently 2012-05-10
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E8
What Are Dreams About? 2012-05-17
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E9
Can God Face Up Evil? 2012-05-24
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E10
How Belief Systems Work 2012-05-31
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E11
Do Religions Complement or Contradict? 2012-06-07
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E12
What's in a Resurrection? 2012-06-14
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E13
Time at Sea 2012-06-21
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Season 14 11 episodes ▼
E1
Time at Sea 2012-11-10
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E2
What Is Time? 2012-11-17
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E3
Why Believe in God? 2012-11-24
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E4
Alternative Concepts of God? 2012-12-01
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E5
Pantheism: Is the World God? 2012-12-08
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E6
How Do Brains Work? 2012-12-15
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E7
What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean? 2012-12-22
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E8
What Is God's Eternity? 2012-12-29
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E9
Why Is Free Will a Big Question? 2013-01-05
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E10
Is Free Will an Illusion? 2013-01-12
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E12
Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge? 2015-06-19
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Season 15 0 episodes ▼
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