Slog - Comments on Creationist Manslaughter! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter First came Huxley and Wilberforce. Then Darrow and Bryan. Recently, Kitzmiller and Dover, or their proxies. Never have these impassioned proponents of science and adherents to Biblical literalism come to blows. Until now. A fruit-picking expedition to New South Wales climaxed in a debate between creationist Alexander Christian York and scientist Rudi Boa. It ended with Boa dead. Watch your back, people. Creationists lurk even in the most bucolic vacation destinations. And they have kitchen knives. (Via HorsesAss.)... Copyright 2008 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:07:44 -0800 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:14:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by vooodooo84 I would have liked to see Darrow v. Bryan in a fight to the death.

Sweaty old fat white men in dress shirts and suspenders desperately eye gouging and punching, that would have been awesome.

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874544 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:14:34 -0800 Comment by UnoriginalAndrew Yeah, I'm sure the fact he was a creationist is what's relevant, not the fact he was drunk.

]]> UnoriginalAndrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874560 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:30:51 -0800 Comment by Hernandez Fruit picking? That settles it. I blame the Mexicans.

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874574 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:41:48 -0800 Comment by infrequent scientists should get potentially ex-dyke bodyguards, too.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874579 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:43:18 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @1

The winner eats the loser, too!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874584 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:30 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Survival of the fittest Poe, Social Darwinism at it height

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874592 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874592 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:50:52 -0800 Comment by Tam The creationist got a maximum sentence of 5 years. I can't help but wonder if the sentence would have been different if the creationist were the dead one. Or perhaps this is simply a result of different sentencing laws in Australia.

]]> Tam http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874613 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:09:00 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 'Justice Adams said he had given York a sentence at the lower end of the scale, partly because of the accidental nature of the stabbing.

"I do not believe that he took aim but rather thrust out," Justice Adams said.

"I think he knew that the knife was in his hand ...'

Fucking hell. He gets a knife and thrusts it into the guy, and it's an "accident"?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874616 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:11:05 -0800 Comment by butterw From TFA: "The offender is a person of good character and the offence is a complete aberration."

Clearly, he was defending God's word. Can't have better character than that :\

]]> butterw http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874619 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:12:19 -0800 Comment by infrequent you know you have a knife, and you are thrusting, but you only accidentally stab some one? this is survival of the fittest gone haywire.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874634 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874634 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:29:36 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV This could have all been avoided if only the scientist had evolved some sort of armor-plating.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874644 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874644 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:35:10 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 @10 maybe he though Jeebus would turn the knife into a fish, sounds like reasonable action to me.

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874649 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874649 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:37:09 -0800 Comment by infrequent yes, but fish thrusting is also illegal in new zealand.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874675 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874675 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:59:25 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA Get drunk and stab someone to death that you disagree with...

How very Christian!

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874676 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:59:29 -0800 Comment by chas Redmond Maybe they were re-enacting the scuffles between Scot and Brit prisoners newly freed in Australia. They were, after all, in New South Wales, home of the ancient penal colony. Local history play has bad act.

]]> chas Redmond http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c874839 News Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:18:09 -0800 Comment by Anton Caghe' It comes to no surprise. It's written in the Bible.
Watch out for the Christians as Jesus was a liar!!

]]> Anton Caghe' http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c875725 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/creationist_manslaughter#c875725 News Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:14:30 -0800