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Nonsense of a High Order

Stephen Hawking
Photo: Stephen Hawking, by NASA HQ Photo, via Flickr (cropped).

Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking’s Nonsense of a High Order

Averick describes the work as “superficial,” “convenient,” and marked by “a glaring lack of profundity.” Read More ›
Neptune
Photo: Neptune, photographed by Voyager 2, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Rabbi Moshe Averick: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, and shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
perpetual motion machine
Averick
Photo: A phony perpetual motion machine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Read More ›
Hawking
Photo: Stephen Hawking in 2008, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is It Impious to Laugh at Stephen Hawking’s Thoughts on Religion?

Rabbi Moshe Averick concludes, “If he did physics that way his university would have fired him.” Read More ›
Shaman
Image: Sámi shaman, by O. H. von Lode [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham

Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received. Read More ›
NGC 3603
Photo: NGC 3603, a star cluster, by NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center), the WFC3 Science Oversight Committee, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Listen: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Rabbi Moshe Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
earth
Photo: Earth from Apollo 10, May 18, 1969, via NASA.

Listen: Morality in a Meaningless World

Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick. Read More ›

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