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Hello there. I'm Eric Metaxus. I get to talk to interesting people on this program, and I guess you get to listen to me, talk to them, or hopefully you get to listen to me,

listen to them.

That's my goal.

My guest for this hour is Mark Bauerline, who is a professor emeritus of English at Emory University. He's an editor at First Things magazine, where he hosts a podcast.

He interviewed me recently about my book, and I was excited to see that I would be soon interviewing him about his book.

And that soon is now.

The title of the book is The Dumbest Generation Grows Up, from Stupefied Youth to Dangerous

Adults.

Mark Bauerline, welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me, Eric.

It was great to do that taping.

We're going to do your podcast next week at first things on the book is atheism dead, a book which I love so much. I gave to my son, my 16-year-old son, to read a few chapters as part of his physics class.

Holy cow. Talk about high praise. That's really, seriously, that's how wonderful to hear that. Because you know this. When you write a book, your goal is to get these ideas out into the world. So the idea that you assign some of the chapters of my book is atheism dead to your 16 year old son that's pretty cool i think this

i think this conversation is over i'm done albin i wanted to go out on a high note goodbye ladies and

gentlemen no you know we'll get higher we'll get higher but uh what what you see in those chapters on say

the big bang theory they're, kids are going to get that

in school, in their physics class, but they're not going to get the cosmological, the full

cosmological implications of that theory relative to faith.

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