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Closer to Truth

Closer To Truth is the definitive series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God, a global journey in search of the vital ideas of existence. It is the most complete, compelling, and accessible series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God ever produced for television. Closer To Truth explores fundamental issues of universe, brain/mind, religion, meaning and purpose through intimate, candid conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, scholars, theologians and creative thinkers of all kinds. The shows are a rich visual experience, shot entirely on location in high definition with multiple cameras generating film-like production values. The visual lushness of the high definition, on-location productions, combined with the intriguing titles of the shows, builds audiences already interested in such perennial topics. Each 30-minute episode features four to seven of the world's foremost thinkers. The series as a whole features 128 such authorities in what we believe to be the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of these topics ever presented in visual or electronic media.

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Diverse Arguments for God

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Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1006
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Letterbox

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What Would An Infinite Cosmos Mean?

Do stars and spaces go on forever? Do the numbers of galaxies, and even of universes, have no end? Here's how "infinity" enriches appreciation of reality.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1107H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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Does Hell Reveal God?

What kind of God would create hell? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism and Islam depend on the reality of Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer Insight into what God would be like?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1112H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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What Is God's Eternity?

Does God exist in time, experiencing time's flow? Or is God eternal, existing outside of time, creating time? These questions help assess God's existence and discern God's essence.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1108H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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Time at Sea

Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play? Some physicists and philosophers say No-time is an Illusion; time is not real. How can that be?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1101H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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The Mystery of Existence?

Call all-that-exists "something." Why is there "something" rather than "nothing"? The question haunts me. Why is there anything at all?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #913
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Letterbox

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Did The Universe Have A Beginning?

Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1201H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?

Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What's so special about human nature?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1202H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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What Would It Feel Like to Be God?

God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God's private mental life? Is this asking too much, going too far?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1203H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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What's The New Atheism?

I hope God exists, which is why I listen to atheists and follow their arguments. If hope trumps reason I may be entombed in false belief.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1204H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?

Is the self an illusion? Decades roll by; every molecule of my body changes many times over. Yet I sense myself the same. Not just continuity, but unity.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1205H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?

Does God exist? What are God's attributes and traits? How to examine such questions about God? Philosophy enables analysis and provokes insight.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1206H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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Why Do We Sleep?

Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? What do sleeping and dreaming reveal about consciousness?

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1207H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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Does Cosmic Fine Tuning Demand Explanation?

The universe works for us because of deep physical laws. But if the values of these laws would much change, then all we see and know could not exist.

Rating: TVG
Episode Number: #1208H
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English, Widescreen, Presented in High-Definition

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