Closer to Truth (2000)
- Genre: Documentary, Talk
- First Air Date: 2000-05-07
- Last Air Date: 2015-06-19
- Total Seasons: 15
- Total Episodes: 131
- Status: Returning Series
- Production Country: United States of America
- Network: PBS
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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | What are the Grand Questions of Science? | 2000-05-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Will the Internet Change Humanity? | 2000-05-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | What's Creativity and Who's Creative? | 2000-05-21 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | New Communities for the New Millennium? | 2000-05-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | How Did This Universe Begin? | 2000-06-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025? | 2000-06-11 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | What Is Consciousness? | 2000-06-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Can You Really Extend Your Life? | 2000-06-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Can ESP Affect Our Lives? | 2000-07-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility? | 2000-07-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | How Does Technology Transform Thinking? | 2000-07-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Strange Physics of the Mind? | 2000-07-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Can Science Seek the Soul? | 2000-07-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Does Sex Have a Future? | 2000-08-06 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000? | 2000-09-10 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science? | 2000-09-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | How Does Creativity Work at Work? | 2000-09-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Do Brains Make Minds? | 2000-10-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race? | 2000-10-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Why Do We Make Music and Art? | 2000-10-15 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful? | 2000-10-22 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | How Did We Think in the Last Millennium? | 2000-10-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Who Needs Sex Therapy? | 2000-11-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | How Does Technology Transform Society? | 2000-11-12 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Can You Learn to Be Creative? | 2000-11-19 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | What Is Parapsychology? | 2000-11-26 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | Will This Universe Ever End? | 2000-12-03 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | Will Intelligence Fill the Universe? | 2000-12-10 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Is Science Fiction Science? | 2003-05-01 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion? | 2003-05-08 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | How Does the Autistic Brain Work? | 2003-05-15 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | How Weird Is the Cosmos? | 2003-05-22 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Microbes - Friend or Foe? | 2003-05-29 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | How Does Order Arise in the Universe? | 2003-06-05 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | What Makes Music So Significant? | 2003-06-12 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap? | 2003-06-19 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality? | 2003-06-26 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | How Does Basic Science Defend America? | 2003-07-03 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine? | 2003-07-10 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Is Consciousness Definable? | 2003-07-17 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Is the Universe Full of Life? | 2003-07-24 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Can Religion Withstand Technology? | 2003-07-31 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs? | 2003-08-07 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | How Is God the Creator? | 2010-05-06 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | What Would Multiple Universes Mean? | 2010-05-13 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | What Things Are Conscious? | 2010-05-20 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | Can Religion Be Explained Without God? | 2010-05-27 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | What's Real About Time? | 2010-06-03 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | How Do People Maintain Their Identity? | 2010-06-10 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | Is God a Person? | 2010-06-17 | 30 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | Asking Ultimate Questions | 2010-06-24 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Arguing God From Natural Theology | 2010-09-30 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe? | 2010-10-07 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence? | 2010-10-14 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Is God All Knowing? | 2010-10-21 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Why Is the Quantum So Strange? | 2010-10-28 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises? | 2010-11-04 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | Is God Necessary? | 2010-11-11 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | Would Multiple Universes Undermine God? | 2010-11-18 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 9 | Do Human Brains Have Free Will? | 2010-11-25 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 10 | Arguing for Agnosticism? | 2010-12-02 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 11 | Are Science and Religion at War? | 2010-12-09 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 12 | Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos? | 2010-12-16 | 30 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 13 | A New Heaven and a New Earth? | 2010-12-23 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | Why Is the Universe Breathtaking? | 2011-01-06 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Does Consciousness Have Meaning? | 2011-01-13 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Arguing God From Miracles? | 2011-01-20 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Marvels of Space-Time? | 2011-01-27 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | What Makes Brains Conscious? | 2011-02-03 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 7 | Is God Perfect? | 2011-02-10 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | What Are the Scope and Limits of Science? | 2011-02-17 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 9 | Is Human Consciousness Special? | 2011-02-24 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 10 | If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will? | 2011-03-03 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 11 | Can Science Talk God? | 2011-03-10 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 12 | Do Persons Survive Death? | 2011-03-17 | 30 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 13 | Is Theism Coherent? | 2011-03-24 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | What's Beyond Physics? | 2011-04-07 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Can ESP Reveal a New Reality? | 2011-04-14 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Arguing God From Consciousness? | 2011-04-21 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning? | 2011-04-28 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | What Maintains Personal Identity? | 2011-05-05 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Arguing God From Being? | 2011-05-12 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality? | 2011-05-19 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | What's Wrong With Immortal Souls? | 2011-05-26 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 10 | Does God Have a Nature? | 2011-06-02 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 11 | Are There Things Not Physical? | 2011-06-09 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 12 | How Free Is God? | 2011-06-16 | 30 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 13 | Immortality and Eternal Life | 2011-06-23 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | Fallacies in Proving God Exists | 2011-09-29 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe? | 2011-10-06 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy | 2011-10-13 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean? | 2011-10-20 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | Does a Creator God Work? | 2011-10-27 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation | 2011-11-03 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | How Is God All Powerful? | 2011-11-10 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 8 | Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality? | 2011-11-17 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 9 | Complexity From Simplicity? | 2011-11-24 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 10 | Do Humans Have Free Will? | 2011-12-01 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 11 | What Is God About? | 2011-12-08 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 12 | Does Consciousness Point to God? | 2011-12-15 | 30 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 13 | The Mystery of Existence? | 2011-12-22 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | Is Consciousness an Illusion? | 2012-04-05 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | What Is God? | 2012-04-12 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | Do General Principles Govern All Science? | 2012-04-19 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | Diverse Argument for God | 2012-05-03 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Why Science and Religion Think Differently | 2012-05-10 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 8 | What Are Dreams About? | 2012-05-17 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 9 | Can God Face Up Evil? | 2012-05-24 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 10 | How Belief Systems Work | 2012-05-31 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 11 | Do Religions Complement or Contradict? | 2012-06-07 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 12 | What's in a Resurrection? | 2012-06-14 | 30 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 13 | Time at Sea | 2012-06-21 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | Time at Sea | 2012-11-10 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | What Is Time? | 2012-11-17 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | Why Believe in God? | 2012-11-24 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Alternative Concepts of God? | 2012-12-01 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | Pantheism: Is the World God? | 2012-12-08 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | How Do Brains Work? | 2012-12-15 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 7 | What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean? | 2012-12-22 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 8 | What Is God's Eternity? | 2012-12-29 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 9 | Why Is Free Will a Big Question? | 2013-01-05 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 10 | Is Free Will an Illusion? | 2013-01-12 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 11 | What's in a Resurrection? | 2013-01-19 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 12 | Does Hell Reveal God? | 2013-01-26 | 30 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 13 | Confronting Consciousness | 2013-02-02 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | Did the Universe Have a Beginning? | 2013-06-08 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | How Do Humans Differ From Other Animals? | 2013-06-15 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | What Would It Feel Like to Be God? | 2013-06-22 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | What's the New Atheism? | 2013-06-29 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time? | 2013-07-06 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 6 | Can Philosophy of Religion Find God? | 2013-07-13 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 7 | Why Do We Sleep? | 2013-07-20 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 8 | Does Cosmic Fine Tuning Demand Explanation? | 2013-07-27 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 9 | Why Obsess About Free Will? | 2013-08-03 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 10 | Why Seek an Alternative God? | 2013-08-10 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 11 | Panentheism: Is the World in God? | 2013-08-17 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 12 | What Is Nothing? | 2013-08-24 | 30 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 13 | Why Anything at All? | 2013-08-31 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | What Is Ultimate Reality? | 2014-03-03 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | What Is Consciousness? | 2014-03-10 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Is This God? | 2014-03-17 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Will the Universe Ever End? | 2014-03-24 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Can the Divine Be a Person? | 2014-03-31 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 6 | Is Death Final? | 2014-04-07 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 7 | What Causes Religious Belief? | 2014-04-14 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 8 | What Things Are Real? | 2014-04-21 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 9 | Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will? | 2014-04-28 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 10 | What Can We Learn From Alternative Gods? | 2014-05-05 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 11 | Why God, Not Nothing? | 2014-05-12 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 12 | Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will? | 2014-05-19 | 30 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 13 | Is God Totally Free? | 2014-05-26 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Can the Mind Heal the Body? | 2015-04-03 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | Is God Responsible for Evil? | 2015-04-10 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 3 | What Is Information? | 2015-04-17 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 4 | Can Design Point to God? | 2015-04-24 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 5 | What Is Truth? | 2015-05-01 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 6 | Does Information Create the Cosmos? | 2015-05-08 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 7 | Why a Body in a Resurrection? | 2015-05-15 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 8 | Must Multiple Universes Exist? | 2015-05-22 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 9 | Toward a Science of Consciousness | 2015-05-29 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 10 | Big Questions in Free Will Part I | 2015-06-05 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 11 | Big Questions in Free Will Part II | 2015-06-12 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 12 | Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge? | 2015-06-19 | 30 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 13 | How Can God Not Be Free? | 2015-06-26 | 30 min |