Oh, yes. I understand, Rohrbough. It was tragic.
Injured victim: WHY? Why did you do it!
Shooter: Because the frequency of alleles changes within a population over time.
[voice= Penn Jillette] ...Okay, so maybe that's not what happened. In fact, it's completely nearly the fucking opposite of what happened. The Columbine shootings were caused by evolution? BULLSHIT! The shootings were caused by kids who were bullied and driven over the edge, by a system that didn't notice or help them in time, and by easy access to weapons. We'll have the NRA on our asses after this, but guns certainly did kill people in the Columbine shootings. If it weren't for guns, there wouldn't have been a shooting!
We understand that you're still grieving. We understand you still feel pain. But that doesn't give you a license to rant against things you know nothing about! You tried to exploit peoples' sympathy to push your own fucking ideological fact suppression; you tried to use a disaster in schools to ruin school curriculum. And we know why you did it after the tragedy. If you tried this beforehand, when people were thinking rationally and not caught up in emotion, they would have seen through it. Evolution doesn't say that the strong kill the weak, it says that individuals with traits beneficial to survival or reproduction will have more offspring and those traits will be more common. It doesn't mean there's no morality in fact, it created morality. For humans and other social animals, morality is a beneficial trait. But since you were trying to play off peoples' emotions, you hoped no one would point that out.
Abortion! There's a demon we just love to fight with! With all the absurd emotional uneducated "pro-lifers" trying to force their opinions on us all, there must be some valid point there, right? Well, no. "Pro-life" is bullshit.
Brian Rohrbough, in his emotionally choked up television address, says that abortion is one of the causes of Columbine because it devalues childrens' lives. Devalues children's lives? What the fuck is he on? Most abortions are performed long before the embryo is anything more than a clump of stem cells! Killing babies? Yeah, you try to tell me that this is a baby. It looks like some alien blob to me! The fact is, criminalizing abortion devalues childrens' lives. If you ban abortion, you tell kids that they're morally equal to an unfeeling clump of cells. You tell hundreds of children that they should give up their mothers in order to protect the blob that the "pro-lifers" insist will become their brother or sister. And then little Bro dies, except without abortion, he takes his mother with him. Yeah, you try telling Little Johnny that you killed his mom to keep his little blobby brother alive a few days longer.
And then, there's this asshole. Kent Hovind is one of the key proponents of creationism, the idea that the world was magically created by a god in violation of all known scientific fact. He doesn't think evolution is wrong, he thinks it's dangerous. He thinks evolution leads to crime. He's also in jail for over 55 counts of tax fraud. Apparently, he believed the law didn't apply to him.
Now let's take a look at Hovind's video. Ooh, it's got happy music and sciency graphics, but beyond that cheerful introduction, the man's a fucking PATHOLOGICAL FUCKING LIAR!
Anyway, Hovind's position on evolution is clear: It causes communism, socialism, Marxism, Nazism...
...and BAD FUCKING BREATH. Is there anything he thinks evolution doesn't cause?
People like Hovind are simple-minded. They can't underastand that the world is complex, things have multiple causes and effects, and that you can't paint everything in black and white. They think the world works in simple ways, and when it doesn't then God works in mysterious ways. Right. Some disasters are not because of evolution. They're because God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
Kent Hovind probably wouldn't know what happened 20 years before he was born, even if it bit him on the ass. But that won't stop that fucker from trying to make up a story of his own and trying to foist in on us whether we want it or not.
Kent Hovind calls himself "Doctor" because he purchased a PhD from a diploma mill for a small fee and a sixth-grade level paper. He thinks that this and a Bible make him Lord of the Universe. He pranced around spreading bullshit everywhere, and probably wrote the lines that Rohrbough spoke in that show.
Of course, for all of Hovind's hand-waving, he still hasn't made a point. Evolution is the key backbone of biology today and it certainly hasn't increased crime.
The fact is, tragedies like Columbine shock us all. They're horrible and should be prevented at all costs. But let's keep our heads. We're not going to stop the next Columbine by flailing at irrelevant boogeymen like evolution, we're just going to ruin our childrens' educations. We may never be able to stop school shootings; there have always been violent teens, and probably always will be. Let's just not make the problem worse by banning ideas in fits of emotion. The more ideas we ban or replace with religion, the more ignorant our children will be and the more likely they will be to commit crimes. And that ain't bullshit. [/voice]