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Remember, when you support Intelligent Design, you're supporting Sharia Law:
With the rise of the Ash'arites, the ethos in the Islamic world was increasingly opposed to original scholarship and any scientific inquiry that did not directly aid in religious regulation of private and public life. While the Mu'tazilites had contended that the Koran was created and so God's purpose for man must be interpreted through reason, the Ash'arites believed the Koran to be coeval with God — and therefore unchallengeable. At the heart of Ash'ari metaphysics is the idea of occasionalism, a doctrine that denies natural causality. Put simply, it suggests natural necessity cannot exist because God's will is completely free. [Intelligent Design proponents] believe that God is the only cause, so that the world is a series of discrete physical events each willed by God.
[Emphasis mine, natch.]

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