Some people use a tragedy like the recent Virginia Tech shootings to effect change, you improve society or to prevent something like this from happening again. But then, there are these people, who use such tragedies to forward their political agenda by stretching reality until it breaks to forward their own beliefs.

Just ignore the fact that there are hardly any school shootings in Europe, and they have been teaching evolution in the science classroom, unopposed, for decades. Never mind that people have been violent and angry at nothing for as long as there has been nothing to be angry at. Turn a blind eye to the reality that the same brand of religious fanatic in Islam condemns the teaching of evolution as much as any crazed Creationist in the US, and we can just look at Afghanistan to see where that gets us.

The thing that disturbs me the most is that Creationists are opportunists who have no scrupples about what they will blame on evolution. Claims such as these are almost impossible to refute; where do you begin breaking down the logical structure of a statement so wild and unsupportable? Suggestions would be nice, but really, how do you even refute what is being said? The statement has no basis in fact, no support from anything, and yet people will dogmatically blame Columbine, Virginia Tech, or the Yankees blowing it in the playoffs on the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Maybe we should just let all the rabid Creationists have their own state, and let them run it the way they want to. We’ll check back in twenty years. If they are living in a man-made Eden after then, perhaps they were right. But somehow I doubt that this would happen, and the rest of us would get stuck cleaning up the mess they would make.