I installed composer using the MAMP PHP 5.6.8 php.exe. I first ran into the OpenSSL.dll issue. I fixed that by copying the MAMP/conf/php5.6.8/php.ini and pasting it in MAMP\bin\php\php5.6.8 so composer wouldn't ask for the OpenSSL.
I opened up command prompt and cd to my MAMP htdocs.
I ran composer create-project laravel/laravel Laravel_project
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So this is what I saw in the command prompt
Once it started installing the dependencies this came up.
Can someone please help me find a solution to this odd problem. Thank you.