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    "href": "/post/2009/11/03/intelligent-design-an-islamic-designer/",
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    "title": "Intelligent Design: An Islamic Designer?",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Religion",
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    "created": "2009-11-03 23:11:38 UTC",
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        "2009-11-03 23:11:38 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Creationism is growing in the Muslim world, from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia, international academics said last month as they gathered here to discuss the topic.</p>\n<p>But, they said, young-Earth creationists, who believe God created the universe, Earth and life just a few thousand years ago, are rare, if not nonexistent.</p>\n<p>One reason is that although the Koran, the holy text of Islam, says the universe was created in six days, the next line adds that a day, in this instance, is metaphorical: \u00e2\u0080\u009ca thousand years of your reckoning.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03islam.html?_r=1&amp;ref=instapundit\">Creationism, Without a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World - NYTimes.com</a>.</em></p>\n<p>So, ID folks, what disprovable hypothesis might tell us if Allah is the Designer or not?</p>\n"
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