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Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   We like pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the foundations of reality, knowing all that can be known. Overly ambitious? Sophomoric? WeI don't care. We do it anyway. Here are ultimate questions.   Featuring interviews with Lawrence Krauss, John Leslie, Max Tegmark, a...

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls.   What is quantum theory and why is it so strange? To know reality, one must confront the quantum. It is how our world works at the deepest level. What's the quantum? It is bizarre, defying all common sense.   Featuring interviews with Wojciech Zurek, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lee Smolin, and Seth Lloyd.

Make a donation of any amount to help support Closer To Truth reach new audiences and continue exploring deep questions: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   Robert Lawrence Kuhn sits down with philosopher Richard Swinburne to embark on a retrospective of his views and arguments over his illustrious career. In this episode, they'll explore the problem of evil, atonement, resurrection, and more.   Richard G...

Support Closer To Truth with a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help us continue exploring in the new year.   Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn recently published an extensive new article titled "A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications" . The paper covers the field of consciousness studies in its entirety as well as the consequences of consc...

Support Closer To Truth this season with a tax-deductible donation. Your contributions directly fuels a new year of exploring life's biggest questions.   If God exists, did God create everything? Did God create out of literally "nothing"? Suppose there was no beginning to the cosmos, just the universe going through endless cycles, what then? And what about "abstract objects" like logic and numbers...

Support Closer To Truth this holiday season with a tax-deductible donation of any amount. Your contribution directly fuels our exploration of life's biggest questions with new contributors and differing perspectives. Give today.   Time seems natural and absolute: the flow of moments one following another from the unknown past to the knife's edge present to the unknowable future. But this is not so...

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us continue producing thought-provoking interviews with experts across the globe.   All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly believers. Belief in God is too important to be determined by cultural circumstances.   Featuring interviews wi...

Donate to Closer To Truth this holiday season to help us keep our content free and without paywalls.   Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about?   Featuring interviews with John Richard Gott III, Abraham Loeb, George Smoot, and Saul Perlmutter.

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   Are human beings purely physical? Evolved at random and destined to die, extinguished forever? Or are we something more? A spirit or a soul, with existence beyond? What's the relationship between our brains and our consciousness, between the stuff in our skulls and the essence in our minds...

Make a donation of any amount to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions with new and exciting thinkers.   Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker shares an intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and th...

Support Closer To Truth and help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions with a donation of any amount.   Renowned biologist Richard Dawkins discusses his views on topics including philosophy of biology, evolution, atheism and religion, extraterrestrial life, and human and animal culture.  Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author....

Make a donation of any amount to help support Closer To Truth: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   Whether extra-terrestrial intelligences exist has profound implications for human religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate answer, theists and atheists will each mold that answer, alone or not alone, to fit their opposing worldviews.   Featuring interviews with S...

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   Harvard and MIT's influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein discusses his new book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation . In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offe...

Support Closer To Truth with a donation of any amount to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions.   The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when physicists review the history of physics, what are the ways in which Breakthroughs occur?   Featuring interviews wit...

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paid subscriptions or paywalls.   Are there revolutionary discoveries yet to be made? Radical revelations and shocking secrets? Does physical reality go beyond what we know today? Far beyond?   Featuring interviews with Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Rupert Sheldrake, Paul Davies, and...

Race is obviously real—historically, socially, politically. What about biologically? We explore biological facts about race and their implications. What’s the relationship between color and race? Are human races subspecies of homo sapiens? Is race a “natural kind?” How to form a coherent theory of race?   Featuring interviews with Quayshawn Spencer, Joshua Swamidass, Massimo Pigliucci, and Alexand...

To get subscriber-only exclusives, register for free at CTT.com today.   How much can science discover? Are there boundaries to science? Are there truths—real truths—beyond science?   Featuring interviews with Frank Wilczek, J. Gott, Stephen Wolfram, Bas van Fraassen, and Owen Gingerich.

Donate to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions.   When we speak about the future of the universe, we mean when the sun burns out, when galaxies collide, when everything flies apart and ultimately evaporates. Do the untold billions and trillions of years from now make it irrelevant for us today? No. The far far future of the universe conveys meaning now.   Fea...

How do conscious states relate to the rest of reality? Do all animals deserve moral consideration? Can AI be conscious? Philosopher David Papineau discusses the nature of consciousness, the mind-body problem, physicalism versus materialism, and much more.   Donate to Closer To Truth to help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   David Papineau is a British acade...

Make a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth and help us continue exploring life's deepest questions.   Nothing means anything without our brains: not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do-all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of human emotion-all are the product of the brains in our heads.   Featuring interviews with Rodolfo Llinas, John Mazziott...

Get free access to Closer to Truth's library of more than 5,000 videos.   Some say that consciousness is the only true reality—that everything else, including the universe, comes from consciousness. If so, how would consciousness relate to the world?   Featuring interviews with Deepak Chopra, Donald Hoffman, Neil Theise, Fred Alan Wolf, Frank J. Tipler, and Charles T. Tart.

Register for a free Closer To Truth membership to receive special exclusives, event discounts, and more.   We know the age of the universe, how stars were born, how galaxies were formed. But does the cosmos have meaning? Not make-believe, feel-good meaning. But real meaning.   Featuring interviews with Saul Perlmutter, Roger Penrose, Paul Steinhardt, Martin Rees, and Frank Drake.   Show your suppo...

Are you a Closer To Truth member? Register for a free account to get special exclusives, event discounts, and more.   How can I assess whether God exists without exploring what kind of God is supposed to exist? So I examine God's essence and nature.   Featuring interviews with John Polkinghorne, John Behr, John Hick, J.L. Schellenberg, and Timothy O'Connor.   Show your support for the show with a...

Help us continue exploring the greatest questions of the universe with a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq   Astrophysicist Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and t...

Register for a free CTT membership today to get exclusive benefits.   Do I disappear at death? My body? Sure, it's gone. But my awareness? Does my consciousness end forever? What could be more frightening! Is there any hope here?   Featuring interviews with Charles Tart, Richard Swinburne, Robert Park, James Tabor, and Keith Ward.