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On this classic episode of ID the Future,<\/strong> guest host Ira Berkowitz interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>about Stephen Hawking\u2019s comments on God and religion in Hawking\u2019s posthumously published Brief Answers to the Big Questions<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> Averick describes the work as \u201csuperficial,\u201d \u201cconvenient\u201d and marked by \u201ca glaring lack of profundity.\u201d  Or as the rabbi puts it, \u201cIf he did physics that way his university would have fired him.\u201d Listen in to hear why Averick has such a problem with the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this classic episode of ID the Future, guest host Ira Berkowitz interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism, about Stephen Hawking\u2019s comments on God and religion in Hawking\u2019s posthumously published Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Averick describes the work as \u201csuperficial,\u201d \u201cconvenient\u201d and marked by \u201ca glaring lack of profundity.\u201d  Or as the rabbi puts it, \u201cIf he did physics that way his university would have fired him.\u201d Listen in to hear why Averick has such a problem with the book.","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/974b99d7-9508-48c5-adda-a1be7e150139-IDTF-1532-MosheAverick-IraBerkowitz-Hawking.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"756250","podmotor_episode_id":"791567","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:19:02","filesize":"12.7 mb","filesize_raw":"13343721","date_recorded":"2021-11-19 13:44:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1532","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,126,155,346,697,811,1712,4820,1249,1318,4821,1339,4726,1421,4637,4732],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-40118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__repeat","tag-atheism","tag-big-bang","tag-cosmology","tag-god","tag-intelligent-design","tag-natural-law","tag-pagans","tag-rabbi-moshe-averick","tag-science-and-faith","tag-scientific-naturalism","tag-scientism","tag-solar-eclipses","tag-stephen-hawking","tag-superstition","tag-vikings","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Moshe Averick"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/child-scribble-scaled.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\/40118\/1532.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40118\/1532.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40118\/1532.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking\u2019s Nonsense of a High Order<\/a><\/blockquote>