Page 673 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

THE SLAUGHTER PERPETRATED TO

"ENFORCE NATURAL SELECTION"

On 20 April 1999, two American students from Columbine High School in the state of Colorado, 18-
year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold, attacked their school armed with guns and
bombs. After killing 12 students and a teacher in the space of half an hour they then committed sui-

cide.

Searches of the two students' homes immediately after the attacks uncovered most interesting docu-

ments and information. In one of his pieces of writing dated 26 April 1998, printed on the Westword
web site based in Denver, Eric Harris wrote that he and Klebold would enforce "natural selection" in
their school:

Sometime in April [of 1999] me and V [Klebold, whom he called "V" of "Vodka" in the journals] will
get revenge and will kick natural selection up a few notches. Armed with the following; a terrorist bag
full of noisey crickets, noisey crickets strapped to WD40 cans, pipe bombs with a ... load of shrapnel,
fire bombs, chlorine gas bombs, and smoke bombs. 1

In addition, the words "NATURAL SELECTION" were printed on Harris' T-shirt at the time of the at-
tack. 2

It appears from the writings that theirs was an act of revenge against teachers and students whom they
regarded as "inferior." 3

In most of his writings, Harris constantly referred to natural selection and feelings of superiority. In
the three videos they shot before the attack, the two referred to themselves as more "evolved" than oth-
ers and to the feeling of being "above human." 4

Indeed, exactly in April as Harris had written in his journal, he and Klebold entered Columbine High
School with weapons similar to those they had referred to and began massacring the students there.

Both were known in the school for their admiration of Hitler, and wore T-shirts with swastika em-
blems on them. Furthermore, the day they carried out the attack would have been Hitler's 110th birth-
day.

These two boys were apparently ordinary high school students with stable family backgrounds, whom
nobody had ever imagined would perpetrate such an attack. In addition, it appears from their jour-
nals that they had good relations with their families and experienced no problems with them.

The abnormally aggressive streak in these young people's characters which propelled them to perpe-
trate such a psychopathic attack must have been supported by the education they received. They re-
sorted to the concept of "natural selection," which they had learned in school, in order to resolve prob-
lems with classmates whom they thought had excluded them. It is by no means surprising that peo-
ple "educated" to believe such false ideas as that life is a struggle to the death, that one has to fight to
survive, that the strong crush the weak, that human life is of no value, and that human beings are no
different from animals, carry out attacks that they link to natural selection.

The view of life they acquire as a result of their education is the one imposed on people by Darwinism.
People who learn about natural selection's ruthless competition in textbooks and in class, and who

imagine this is the only way to survive, are able to regard such hatred and ruthless enmity as legiti-
mate. They will therefore be capable of perpetrating similar actions.

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