{"id":1840,"date":"2009-12-15T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/young-earth-vs-ancient-culture-smackdown-in-the-onion\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:39:00","slug":"young-earth-vs-ancient-culture-smackdown-in-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/young-earth-vs-ancient-culture-smackdown-in-the-onion.html","title":{"rendered":"Young Earth vs. Ancient Culture Smackdown in The Onion"},"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><em>The Onion<\/em> is often hilarious, but I wonder whether people who are not Bible geeks like me will find this article from today as amusing as I do. The headline reads \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/sumerians_look_on_in_confusion_as?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sumerians Look On In Confusion As Christian God Creates World<\/a>.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8035370576870358776?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion is often hilarious, but I wonder whether people who are not Bible geeks like me will find this article from today as amusing as I do. 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