Mass shootings again blamed on evolution

[Quixote1818]

Snip> In 1999, two students in Columbine, Colorado, went on a shooting rampage, killing 13 students and one teacher, and injuring another 24 before committing suicide. That started a needed national debate about gun control and other issues, but there were also the religious nuts who blamed the whole thing on, well, evolution.

One of those nuts was U.S. representative Tom DeLay. As Lawrence Krauss noted:


Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay—who has, amazingly, a degree in biology—once argued that the Columbine school shootings happened “because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud.” That’s in the Congressional Record.

Of course there was no evidence at all that Darwinism or evolution had motivated the shooters. They were disaffected and troubled boys who thanks to America’s lax gun laws, were able to acquire an arsenal of firearms.

More at:

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/mass-shootings-again-blamed-on-evolution/

Here is what I have to say about this:

[ananda]

1. Sheesh.

It's the crazed goddies I fear the most.

[Quixote1818]

2. As the cartoon suggests, you can hit them with facts all day long

and they are simply oblivious to them.