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This past weekend we celebrated Darwin and Aish Ha-Torah, the home of the Orthodox kiruv (outreach) specialists, responded with\u00a0an extended excerpt<\/a> by Rabbi Moshe Averick from his book, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist<\/i>.<\/p>\n

His argument, about the origins of life, is a run-on sentence that might as well just read, \u201cLife\u2019s really complicated so someone made it.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cGod of the Gaps\u201d performance with light and mirrors and all those fallacious and boring so-called philosophical arguments that make you want to skim the page or pass out, not necessarily in that order.\u00a0 It\u2019s main flaw is that, like all similar efforts, it considers the components of something that is obviously created analogous to atoms and the forces that work on them.<\/p>\n

He also tries to answer the problem of infinite regress by saying that it doesn\u2019t count with God on account of he\u2019s so special and not material at all.\u00a0 So there.<\/p>\n

Please forgive the childishness of my tone.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m so confused and illusory.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"