{"id":17631,"date":"2013-09-20T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:45:51","slug":"engineers-vs-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/09\/engineers-vs-philosophers.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineers vs. Philosophers"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-19-2013-953-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-19-2013-953-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"320\" height=\"1872\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My religion and science fiction class will be discussing clones next time. 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