Closer to Truth: Into God
Posted by RyftSep 13
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who is on the board of directors at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) and is the executive producer and host of the PBS television series Closer to Truth, has developed an even more specific documentary currently in post-production called Into God. In this series Kuhn explores fundamental questions at the intersection of science and religion with over 50 leading scholars, scientists, and philosophers from both sides of the issue, believers and non-believers alike.
This is a film I am anticipating with some excitement, not only because the subject matter corresponds to my interests but also because I greatly admire a number of the scholars Kuhn interviews. Here is just a partial list:
- Alvin Plantinga, philosopher;
- Francis Collins, director, Human Genome Project;
- Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic Magazine;
- Keith Ward, theologian, philosopher;
- Lawrence Krauss, physicist;
- Paul Davies, physicist, cosmologist;
- Richard Swinburne, philosopher;
- David Shatz, rabbi, religious scholar;
- Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer;
- Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate in physics;
- William Lane Craig, philosopher, religious scholar;
- Russell Stannard, physicist;
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, philosopher;
- Quentin Smith, philosopher;
- Freeman Dyson, physicist;
What I gather from the trailer is that Kuhn does no business with the answers; rather, he articulates the questions and allows his guests to present their perspectives on them. And given the range of scholarly fields his guests represent, I anticipate the answers will be sophisticated and provocative. This film is not intended as providing definitive answers to the questions but as representing the importance and authenticity of the questions and encouraging the viewers to contemplate them seriously in his or her own life (rather than ignorantly dismissing them out of hand as Dawkins or Hitchens would have it).
Here is the official trailer released for it:
