Why Are We Here?
Why Are We Here?
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Why Are We Here?

2015
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

This series asks if we are really creatures who seek meaning in a universe where none exists? Can science alone provide answers, or not?

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  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1: Meaning Seeking Beings

    01-01-2015

    Is it possible to reconcile meaning, purpose and perhaps even God with the workings of a purely material universe? A physics professor and a documentary filmmaker set out to do ju...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2: The Reality Of Ideas

    01-01-2015

    In a material world true knowledge can come from the things we can see, hear and touch. But are there other truths we can discover which come from pure thought or imagination?

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3: The Animal Within

    01-01-2015

    Is it possible that science can tell us what is and isn’t moral or do moral truths lie outside of science? In every culture in every age we have always felt we were moral, but do...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4: The Moral Compass

    01-01-2015

    Light and dark. Life and death. Opposites imposed by the universe itself. But what of good and evil? Are these ideas humans have created for themselves? Or are they, perhaps, a f...

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