{"id":34539,"date":"2019-03-06T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.net\/?p=34539"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:02:49","slug":"1200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1200\/","title":{"rendered":"Averick Takes on the \u201cGod of the Gaps\u201d Objection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this episode of ID the Future, <\/strong>Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>responds to the objection that intelligent design is a feeble \u201cGod of the Gaps\u201d approach, an argument from ignorance. Provocative and entertaining, Averick describes the attack as \u201cless than feeble.\u201d He says it isn\u2019t because of what we don\u2019t know, but because of what we do<\/em> know. He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Their skepticism is not driven by ignorance<\/em> of how to build such a machine, Averick notes. It\u2019s driven by their knowledge<\/em> of the fundamental laws of physics. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode of ID the Future, Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism, responds to the objection that intelligent design is a feeble \u201cGod of the Gaps\u201d approach, an argument from ignorance. Provocative and entertaining, Averick describes the attack as \u201cless than feeble.\u201d He says it isn\u2019t because of what we don\u2019t know, but because of what we do know. He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Their skepticism is not driven by ignorance of how to build such a machine, Averick notes. It\u2019s driven by their knowledge of the fundamental laws of physics. Read More ›<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":34070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1200-R-Averick-and-God-of-the-Gaps-no-foy.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"154242","podmotor_episode_id":"137012","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:15:14","filesize":"10.5 mb","filesize_raw":"10974840","date_recorded":"2019-03-06","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1200","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,1821,126,1822,551,1823,700,811,846,964,1137,1824,1825],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-34539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-argument-from-ignorance","tag-atheism","tag-digital-code","tag-eugenie-scott","tag-fred-hoyle","tag-god-of-the-gaps","tag-intelligent-design","tag-jerry-coyne","tag-materialism","tag-origin-of-life","tag-perpetual-motion-machines","tag-theometer","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Moshe Averick"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/NonsenseAverick.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/34539\/1200.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/34539\/1200.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/34539\/1200.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Averick Takes on the \u201cGod of the Gaps\u201d Objection<\/a><\/blockquote>