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Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
guardian.co.uk ^ | Jan. 27, 2009 | Riazat Butt

Posted on 01/27/2009 10:41:55 AM PST by smokingfrog

Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week's Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: "They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance."

Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give "credit" to God, Attenborough added: "They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

Attenborough went further in his opposition to creationism, saying it was "terrible" when it was taught alongside evolution as an alternative perspective. "It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066."

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: attenborough; attenboroughstupid; countdown2zotstasy; creationists; darwin; evolution; evolutionisatheory; hate
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To: Vaquero

“why not through what we now call evolution.?”

Because that would deny Scripture.


21 posted on 01/27/2009 11:02:40 AM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: smokingfrog

Science has no facts just theories which haven’t been disproven through the scientific method. For instance our understanding of gravity has been revised recently after new observations gleaned through cosmology.

Anybody who claims there are “facts” instead of theories in science is an idiot. A close minded, earth is flat idiot.


22 posted on 01/27/2009 11:02:43 AM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: Vaquero

A little more thought went into the bible’s canonization than you let on. Look up the Councils of Carthage sometime.


23 posted on 01/27/2009 11:04:29 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Dutchboy88

Who are you do mock Gods intentions.

If he intended Humans to have risen by random mutations from a lesser life form, thats his business.

You put way too much in a book written by men...and men who have edited out some of what use to be in the bible. (the gospel of Judas for instance...).


24 posted on 01/27/2009 11:04:59 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Marie2

Scripture was written by men.


25 posted on 01/27/2009 11:05:50 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Marie2
“why not through what we now call evolution.?”

Because that would deny Scripture.


and because that theory is utter unscientific junk.
26 posted on 01/27/2009 11:06:09 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Vaquero

Jesus accepted and quoted Scripture as inspired. He quoted as inspired every book in the Old Testament, as a matter of fact, except Song of Solomon, according to biblical scholars.

Of course, if you don’t think God gave us His Word, inerrant and inspired, you can believe anything. I’d rather someone (like you) admit they don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God, rather than pretend that they believe the Bible is the Word of God but believe in evolution, anyway.

If we reject Scripture as authoritative, we must find alternatives, hence evolution and other ideas. Theories rush into the vaccuum.


27 posted on 01/27/2009 11:06:31 AM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Exactly. Evo-atheists like Attenborough don’t want to know what God said, so they invent a fairy-tale to make their sins easier to bear.

This guy is in his 80’s though, so he’ll find out just how wrong he was soon enough. He’ll wish all he had to worry about was an eye worm when his time comes.


28 posted on 01/27/2009 11:06:38 AM PST by ToGodBeTheGlory (All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Absolutely, in Scripture we find that God records for us precisely why we have such afflictions as the African eye worm.

He also gives us a way to escape the final curse, if we will take it.


29 posted on 01/27/2009 11:07:53 AM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: smokingfrog
"I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

So the man is an atheist, not simply an opponent of young-earth creationism.

To Attenborough in his extreme hubris, I would say: "Where were you when God laid the foundations of the world?"
30 posted on 01/27/2009 11:08:06 AM PST by Antoninus (America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it. - Mark Sanford)
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To: Marie2

> Because that would deny Scripture.

Prove it. How would the Fact of Evolution “deny” Scripture?


31 posted on 01/27/2009 11:09:47 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Marie2

I believe Jesus used lots of tools in his teachings. If he were dealing with Jewish people who believed in the Old Testament, he would use these as homilies.

but the stuff that was written down, even about Jesus, was written down decades, even centuries after His death. So your assumption of his exact quoting of Scriptures is suspect.


32 posted on 01/27/2009 11:10:20 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Dutchboy88

Indeed. The Bible says...

“The dice are cast into the lap. But every result is from the Lord.”

Random processes exclude God only if you think God’s power stops at the casino door, that God has no power over random processes. This is obviously a non-Biblical viewpoint, yet it is the favorite bugaboo of most Creationists. ‘You say it is random? That means you are excluding God!’. Only if you assume random is synonymous with “out of God’s control”.


33 posted on 01/27/2009 11:10:38 AM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: Vaquero

I am not sure what “Who are you do mock Gods intentions.” (sic) means. But, I have no intention of mocking God in any way.

Your assumption that you understand His intentions must have arisen from some kind of input. What is it that you are relying upon to understand God’s intentions?

Sounds like you have been watching that highly reliable PBS stuff recently. Take their input with a grain of salt.


34 posted on 01/27/2009 11:10:54 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: Vaquero

Scripture was written by men.....inspired by GOD’s Holy Spirit.

Your computer wrote that comment.


35 posted on 01/27/2009 11:12:34 AM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: smokingfrog

INTREP


36 posted on 01/27/2009 11:14:07 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Vaquero
but the stuff that was written down, even about Jesus, was written down decades, even centuries after His death. So your assumption of his exact quoting of Scriptures is suspect.

So, you know better? Should we just make assumptions based on our feelings, rather than writing that have stood the test for centuries?

37 posted on 01/27/2009 11:17:57 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: smokingfrog

if man evolved from apes, why are there still apes?


38 posted on 01/27/2009 11:19:29 AM PST by absolootezer0 (thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
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To: absolootezer0

chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor which was an ape more primitive then both man or chimp.

there are lots of types of apes....gibbons, orangutans, gorillas and our closest ancestor, chimps and bonobos.

why are there Horses, zebras and asses, when they both evolved from primitive horse like ancestors?


39 posted on 01/27/2009 11:23:24 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor which was an ape more primitive then both man or chimp.

Well, that's what folks are saying now.
40 posted on 01/27/2009 11:26:12 AM PST by aruanan
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