{"id":17479,"date":"2013-09-13T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:50:12","slug":"the-atheistic-water-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/09\/the-atheistic-water-cycle.html","title":{"rendered":"The Atheistic Water Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofevolution.com\/ray-comfort-explains-why-true-christians-cant-believe-in-evolution-or-the-water-cycle\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tyler Francke<\/a> tackles Ray Comfort\u2019s silly stance on evolution, pointing out that one could say the same thing about the water cycle in light of what the Bible says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofevolution.com\/ray-comfort-explains-why-true-christians-cant-believe-in-evolution-or-the-water-cycle\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click through<\/a> to read his post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/Ray-Comfort-Facebook-green-text.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17480\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/Ray-Comfort-Facebook-green-text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"368\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Francke tackles Ray Comfort\u2019s silly stance on evolution, pointing out that one could say the same thing about the water cycle in light of what the Bible says. 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