...because god told him to. ESPN has a fairly interesting (if ultimately inconclusive) article on him and what has become of him. Apparently he was a pretty normal kid who seems to have gone off the rails right around the time of the combine, helped along by what appears to be a religious con-man (although the "con" part is literal in this case). But the story doesn't really get much farther than that, so aside from giving a bit of context and letting us know that this wasn't some fundie kid going nuclear at the worst time, we're left wondering what did cause him to go over the edge.
I get the feeling that a few years from now we'll probably get a more revealing story, assuming anyone considers it to be click-worthy by then.
I get the feeling that a few years from now we'll probably get a more revealing story, assuming anyone considers it to be click-worthy by then.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
