Since when was using an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence to prove your point worth being killed for? An English backpacker was sentenced to five years for manslaughter by an Australian court after stabbing a Scottish man and fellow backpacker last January. The Englishman befriended the Scottish couple, who were both biomedical scientists, but an evening argument over creation vs. evolution erupted, with the Scottish couple on the side of evolution vs. the Englishman on the side of the Bible and sharp objects.
Both camps seemed to agree to disagree, until the discussion reignited later, this time with drunkenness to fuel the fight. The Englishman lost it during dinner and went Michael Myers on the Scotsman, though he claims he used the knife in self-defense against the evolutionist.
The Englishman received a relatively light sentence because, according to the judge: "I think he knew that the knife was in his hand ... but he did not actually turn his mind to the potentially serious consequences of doing this. (...)The offender is a person of good character and the offence is a complete aberration.''
People, people, people, when are we going to learn that violence isn't the answer? The last thing I want to do is enter into a discussion with my friendly neighborhood creationist, call him or her out for being wrong, and then have escalate into a Sharks-vs.-Jets style knife fight to resolve our differences. Can't we just break out into song or something?
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