"It's not murder, it's just killing someone with a knife."

I'm sure that there are cases all over the world every day like this one that are generally ignored, but case of a creationist who killed a biomedical scientist during an argument over evolution has made a few of my fellow bloggers take notice. While it might be tempting to point at creationists and say "See! They're murderous theists!" details about the stabbing are sparse. According to a report about the incident from The Age, Alexander Christian York (the creationist) killed Rudi Boa (the scientist), Boa being on vacation with his girlfriend. All three were camping at Blowering Holiday Park and were camp neighbors, things going well until the topic of evolution/creationism came up towards the end of a night of drinking. The three entered into a heated debate (probably fueled by the alcohol), but things settled down, at least until they got back to camp. There, with all three being pissed, York stabbed Boa with a kitchen knife, Boa dying of his injuries. York maintains that it was self defense, Brown says York attacked Boa, and the judge said that York probably didn't realize the consequences of what he was doing and should get off light because he's of "good character." What's missing from the report is how many times Boa was stabbed, where he was stabbed, whether he died immediately or died of his wounds after a time, and other critical details, so all that I've heard so far is that three drunk people got into a spat and one stabbed another, causing the death of Boa. What about York convinced the judge that he was a good man "deep down" is also left out, and the reaction of the judge would have been too light regardless of whether Boa was a scientist or a ditch digger (and regardless of whether York was a creationist or not). I'm sure the news will make the rounds through the science blogosphere, but I don't think it really says anything about creationists or scientists as a whole. Indeed, York didn't jump up and kill Boa the second Boa said he was a scientist, and it seems that an argument that got out of hand, fueled by alcohol, ended in tragedy. Given the details that have come out so far, I don't know if we can say anything more about it than that.