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.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (14 Episodes) ▼
E1: What are the Grand Questions of Science?▶ PLAY
E2: Will the Internet Change Humanity?▶ PLAY
E3: What's Creativity and Who's Creative?▶ PLAY
E4: New Communities for the New Millennium?▶ PLAY
E5: How Did This Universe Begin?▶ PLAY
E6: Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?▶ PLAY
E7: What Is Consciousness?▶ PLAY
E8: Can You Really Extend Your Life?▶ PLAY
E9: Can ESP Affect Our Lives?▶ PLAY
E10: Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?▶ PLAY
E11: How Does Technology Transform Thinking?▶ PLAY
E12: Strange Physics of the Mind?▶ PLAY
E13: Can Science Seek the Soul?▶ PLAY
E14: Does Sex Have a Future?▶ PLAY
Season 2 (14 Episodes) ▼
E1: Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?▶ PLAY
E2: What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?▶ PLAY
E3: How Does Creativity Work at Work?▶ PLAY
E4: Do Brains Make Minds?▶ PLAY
E5: Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?▶ PLAY
E6: Why Do We Make Music and Art?▶ PLAY
E7: Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?▶ PLAY
E8: How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?▶ PLAY
E9: Who Needs Sex Therapy?▶ PLAY
E10: How Does Technology Transform Society?▶ PLAY
E11: Can You Learn to Be Creative?▶ PLAY
E12: What Is Parapsychology?▶ PLAY
E13: Will This Universe Ever End?▶ PLAY
E14: Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?▶ PLAY
Season 3 (15 Episodes) ▼
E1: Is Science Fiction Science?▶ PLAY
E2: Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?▶ PLAY
E3: How Does the Autistic Brain Work?▶ PLAY
E4: How Weird Is the Cosmos?▶ PLAY
E5: Microbes - Friend or Foe?▶ PLAY
E6: How Does Order Arise in the Universe?▶ PLAY
E7: What Makes Music So Significant?▶ PLAY
E8: Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?▶ PLAY
E9: Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?▶ PLAY
E10: How Does Basic Science Defend America?▶ PLAY
E11: Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?▶ PLAY
E12: Is Consciousness Definable?▶ PLAY
E13: Is the Universe Full of Life?▶ PLAY
E14: Can Religion Withstand Technology?▶ PLAY
E15: Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?▶ PLAY
Season 4 (0 Episodes) ▼
Season 5 (8 Episodes) ▼
E1: How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?▶ PLAY
E2: Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?▶ PLAY
E3: Wondering About God▶ PLAY
E4: What's the Far Far Future of the Universe?▶ PLAY
E5: Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?▶ PLAY
E6: How is God the Creator?▶ PLAY
E7: What Would Multiple Universes Mean?▶ PLAY
E8: What Things are Conscious?▶ PLAY
Season 6 (0 Episodes) ▼
Season 7 (0 Episodes) ▼
Season 8 (8 Episodes) ▼
E6: How Is God the Creator?▶ PLAY
E7: What Would Multiple Universes Mean?▶ PLAY
E8: What Things Are Conscious?▶ PLAY
E9: Can Religion Be Explained Without God?▶ PLAY
E10: What's Real About Time?▶ PLAY
E11: How Do People Maintain Their Identity?▶ PLAY
E12: Is God a Person?▶ PLAY
E13: Asking Ultimate Questions▶ PLAY
Season 9 (13 Episodes) ▼
E1: Arguing God From Natural Theology▶ PLAY
E2: What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe?▶ PLAY
E3: Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?▶ PLAY
E4: Is God All Knowing?▶ PLAY
E5: Why Is the Quantum So Strange?▶ PLAY
E6: Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises?▶ PLAY
E7: Is God Necessary?▶ PLAY
E8: Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?▶ PLAY
E9: Do Human Brains Have Free Will?▶ PLAY
E10: Arguing for Agnosticism?▶ PLAY
E11: Are Science and Religion at War?▶ PLAY
E12: Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?▶ PLAY
E13: A New Heaven and a New Earth?▶ PLAY
Season 10 (12 Episodes) ▼
E2: Why Is the Universe Breathtaking?▶ PLAY
E3: Does Consciousness Have Meaning?▶ PLAY
E4: Arguing God From Miracles?▶ PLAY
E5: Marvels of Space-Time?▶ PLAY
E6: What Makes Brains Conscious?▶ PLAY
E7: Is God Perfect?▶ PLAY
E8: What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?▶ PLAY
E9: Is Human Consciousness Special?▶ PLAY
E10: If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will?▶ PLAY
E11: Can Science Talk God?▶ PLAY
E12: Do Persons Survive Death?▶ PLAY
E13: Is Theism Coherent?▶ PLAY
Season 11 (12 Episodes) ▼
E2: What's Beyond Physics?▶ PLAY
E3: Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?▶ PLAY
E4: Arguing God From Consciousness?▶ PLAY
E5: Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?▶ PLAY
E6: What Maintains Personal Identity?▶ PLAY
E7: Arguing God From Being?▶ PLAY
E8: Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?▶ PLAY
E9: What's Wrong With Immortal Souls?▶ PLAY
E10: Does God Have a Nature?▶ PLAY
E11: Are There Things Not Physical?▶ PLAY
E12: How Free Is God?▶ PLAY
E13: Immortality and Eternal Life▶ PLAY
Season 12 (13 Episodes) ▼
E1: Fallacies in Proving God Exists▶ PLAY
E2: Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe?▶ PLAY
E3: Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy▶ PLAY
E4: What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean?▶ PLAY
E5: Does a Creator God Work?▶ PLAY
E6: Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation▶ PLAY
E7: How Is God All Powerful?▶ PLAY
E8: Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?▶ PLAY
E9: Complexity From Simplicity?▶ PLAY
E10: Do Humans Have Free Will?▶ PLAY
E11: What Is God About?▶ PLAY
E12: Does Consciousness Point to God?▶ PLAY
E13: The Mystery of Existence?▶ PLAY
Season 13 (11 Episodes) ▼
E2: Is Consciousness an Illusion?▶ PLAY
E3: What Is God?▶ PLAY
E4: Do General Principles Govern All Science?▶ PLAY
E6: Diverse Argument for God▶ PLAY
E7: Why Science and Religion Think Differently▶ PLAY
E8: What Are Dreams About?▶ PLAY
E9: Can God Face Up Evil?▶ PLAY
E10: How Belief Systems Work▶ PLAY
E11: Do Religions Complement or Contradict?▶ PLAY
E12: What's in a Resurrection?▶ PLAY
E13: Time at Sea▶ PLAY
Season 14 (11 Episodes) ▼
E1: Time at Sea▶ PLAY
E2: What Is Time?▶ PLAY
E3: Why Believe in God?▶ PLAY
E4: Alternative Concepts of God?▶ PLAY
E5: Pantheism: Is the World God?▶ PLAY
E6: How Do Brains Work?▶ PLAY
E7: What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?▶ PLAY
E8: What Is God's Eternity?▶ PLAY
E9: Why Is Free Will a Big Question?▶ PLAY
E10: Is Free Will an Illusion?▶ PLAY
E12: Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?▶ PLAY