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$\"\"$ Michael Zimmerman\u2019s latest op-ed piece on the Huffington Post<\/em> website<\/a> is about the planned upcoming visit by a representative of Answers in Genesis to the Butler University campus.<\/p>\n

Read it<\/a> and you\u2019ll get the analogy in the title of this post. You\u2019ll also learn more about what happened the last time Terry Mortenson came to Butler, since Michael Zimmerman was there on that occasion too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"