Roy Moore Blamed Drive-By Shootings on Evolution Education: 'They're Acting Like Animals Because...

[demmiblue]

Source: Newsweek

Video has resurfaced of Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore making a speech in 1997 in which he links the teaching of evolution in schools with drive-by shootings.

“That’s the kind of logic they’ve used in our society today when we have kids driving by shooting each other that they don’t even know each other. They're acting like animals because we've taught them they come from animals," said Moore, who at the time was an Alabama Circuit judge. He was speaking at the "Role of Religion in the U.S. Government" conference hosted by the National Clergy Council.

Amanda Glaze, a professor who specializes in evolution education at Georgia Southern University, told Newsweek Friday that Moore’s 1997 statements were “inflammatory, ludicrous and unsubstantiated.”

About halfway into the 1997 speech, Moore joked, "Scientists who study evolution come up with some of the oddest things, don’t they? They tell us we evolved from something that crawled out of the water, but they have no evidence for that."

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[NanceGreggs]

1. After reading many, many Moore quotes ...

... over the past few weeks, I'm beginning to wonder if he's ever said a cogent thing in his entire life.

[dalton99a]

2. McConnell will put him on the science committee

[A Morpheus Felinae]

3. About halfway into the 1997 speech, Moore joked,

"Scientists who study evolution come up with some of the oddest things, don’t they? They tell us we evolved from something that crawled out of the water, but they have no evidence for that."

Yes they do, Mr. Moore. The evidence is YOU!

[sandensea]

4. Every time I see these far-right Republicans,

I start having doubts as to evolution myself.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Ok, Roy, maybe we didn't all evolve from primordial ooze bottom-feeders, ...

... but MOST of the rest of us HAVE evolved.

[Moostache]

6. None of this matters gang...NONE...

The Alabama GOP is so overrun with conspiracy theory chugging, sister marrying knuckle-dragging low brows that literally NOTHING people dig up on their patron saint Roy is going to matter....at all.

He can rape children, harass women, stalk other school girls, lie about his "beliefs" and talk about slavery and evolution and anything else because he wears the magic "R" and says the magic words ("loves him some Jeebus&quot .

This country is dying.
Roy Moore and Donald Trump and the corpse of the GOP are only the outward symptoms...the tax cuts and division in governance and the SCOTUS debacle and the way the Democratic Party eviscerates itself while the GOP smirks and laughs are the organ failures.

We are finished on the world stage as a moral leader with climate change and Israel being the final straws...
We are catastrophically deranged on the home front in too many ways to recount...

And at long last, the Democratic party itself is failing to get ideas and traction in the public sphere against the most odious opponents since Nazi Germany rose in the 1930's.

Bend over and kiss our collective ass goodbye because there will be a nuclear exchange in the next 3 years if not sooner...

[sakabatou]

7. *headdesk*

[Freethinker65]

8. Wow, he is ignorant too! That should be good for a few more votes

[heaven05]

10. no evidence

of those other two who are allegedly responsible for every goddamn human to be BORN a sinner. Another POS, possible RW senator

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Nothing that is said now will subract from the numbers of "likely" voters for this

asswipe. They are entrenched in racism, bigotry and misogyny. They are one and the same as PGIC voters.

[muntrv]

12. Moore hasn't evolved from slug.

[angstlessk]

13. So if we 'claim' they come from angels and treat them like shit

they will be what exactly?