Closer to Truth (2000) is a documentary, talk web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Closer to Truth online in HD.
Closer to Truth — Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Closer to Truth — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2000-05-07 |
| Seasons | 15 |
| Episodes | 131 |
| Genre | Documentary, Talk |
| Language | English |
| Network | PBS |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Rating | 6.2/10 (4 votes) |
Closer to Truth — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: What are the Grand Questions of Science? (2000-05-07)
- E2: Will the Internet Change Humanity? (2000-05-14)
- E3: What's Creativity and Who's Creative? (2000-05-21) — A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, cre
- E4: New Communities for the New Millennium? (2000-05-28) — Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institut
- E5: How Did This Universe Begin? (2000-06-04) — A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theol
- E6: Can We See the Near Future – Year 2025? (2000-06-11) — Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, fu
- E7: What Is Consciousness? (2000-06-18) — A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn
- E8: Can You Really Extend Your Life? (2000-06-25) — A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sh
- E9: Can ESP Affect Our Lives? (2000-07-02) — A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schl
- E10: Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility? (2000-07-09) — A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru
- E11: How Does Technology Transform Thinking? (2000-07-16) — A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, plane
- E12: Strange Physics of the Mind? (2000-07-23)
- E13: Can Science Seek the Soul? (2000-07-30) — A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Rad
- E14: Does Sex Have a Future? (2000-08-06) — A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-
Season 2
- E1: Can We Imagine the Far Future – Year 3000? (2000-09-10)
- E2: What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science? (2000-09-17)
- E3: How Does Creativity Work at Work? (2000-09-24)
- E4: Do Brains Make Minds? (2000-10-01)
- E5: Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race? (2000-10-08)
- E6: Why Do We Make Music and Art? (2000-10-15)
- E7: Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful? (2000-10-22)
- E8: How Did We Think in the Last Millennium? (2000-10-29)
- E9: Who Needs Sex Therapy? (2000-11-05)
- E10: How Does Technology Transform Society? (2000-11-12)
- E11: Can You Learn to Be Creative? (2000-11-19)
- E12: What Is Parapsychology? (2000-11-26)
- E13: Will This Universe Ever End? (2000-12-03)
- E14: Will Intelligence Fill the Universe? (2000-12-10)
Season 3
- E1: Is Science Fiction Science? (2003-05-01)
- E2: Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion? (2003-05-08)
- E3: How Does the Autistic Brain Work? (2003-05-15)
- E4: How Weird Is the Cosmos? (2003-05-22)
- E5: Microbes – Friend or Foe? (2003-05-29)
- E6: How Does Order Arise in the Universe? (2003-06-05)
- E7: What Makes Music So Significant? (2003-06-12)
- E8: Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap? (2003-06-19)
- E9: Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality? (2003-06-26)
- E10: How Does Basic Science Defend America? (2003-07-03)
- E11: Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine? (2003-07-10)
- E12: Is Consciousness Definable? (2003-07-17)
- E13: Is the Universe Full of Life? (2003-07-24)
- E14: Can Religion Withstand Technology? (2003-07-31)
- E15: Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs? (2003-08-07)
Season 5
- E1: How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
- E2: Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
- E3: Wondering About God
- E4: What's the Far Far Future of the Universe?
- E5: Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
- E6: How is God the Creator? (2010-05-06)
- E7: What Would Multiple Universes Mean? (2010-05-13)
- E8: What Things are Conscious? (2010-05-20)
Season 8
- E6: How Is God the Creator? (2010-05-06)
- E7: What Would Multiple Universes Mean? (2010-05-13)
- E8: What Things Are Conscious? (2010-05-20)
- E9: Can Religion Be Explained Without God? (2010-05-27)
- E10: What's Real About Time? (2010-06-03)
- E11: How Do People Maintain Their Identity? (2010-06-10)
- E12: Is God a Person? (2010-06-17)
- E13: Asking Ultimate Questions (2010-06-24)
Season 9
- E1: Arguing God From Natural Theology (2010-09-30)
- E2: What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe? (2010-10-07)
- E3: Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence? (2010-10-14)
- E4: Is God All Knowing? (2010-10-21)
- E5: Why Is the Quantum So Strange? (2010-10-28)
- E6: Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises? (2010-11-04)
- E7: Is God Necessary? (2010-11-11)
- E8: Would Multiple Universes Undermine God? (2010-11-18)
- E9: Do Human Brains Have Free Will? (2010-11-25)
- E10: Arguing for Agnosticism? (2010-12-02)
- E11: Are Science and Religion at War? (2010-12-09)
- E12: Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos? (2010-12-16)
- E13: A New Heaven and a New Earth? (2010-12-23)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Closer to Truth have? 15 season(s) with 131 episodes.
Where can I watch Closer to Truth? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
