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04 Oct 2007 03:01:49 AM |
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Creationists rewrite natural history |
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The world's best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough,
has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from deleting
references to evolution from his documentaries.
Censored versions of Sir David's award winning programmes have been
broadcast in Holland without any references to evolution, speciation,
descent and timescales of millions of years, after being censored by
Christian creationists who are opposed to Charles Darwin's ideas.
"Instead of saying "70 million years ago, something happens," they say
"a very long time ago something happens". They also omit paragraphs
such as: "This is inherited from my warm-blooded ancestors,"" Sir
David told the Telegraph. "I would much rather they kept to the
letter, as far as that is possible, of what I said."
The edits by the public broadcasting organisation Evangelische Omroep
(EO, Evangelical Broadcasting) have triggered howls protests about
"deviations and sins of omission" from Dutch scientists, led by Dr
Gerdien de Jong, an evolutionary biologist at Utrecht University.
With Dr Hans Roskam of the University of Leiden, she has organised a
petition, signed by more than 300 biologists, including 50 professors,
and letters of complaint to the Director General of the BBC, the
director of the BBC Natural History Unit, and Sir David.
"I am entirely on the side of the biologist in Utrecht," said Sir
David. "The BBC should take steps to make sure that the minuteness of
the meanings are maintained."
advertisement"As its name indicates, the Evangelische Omroep is a
fundamentalist Christian organisation inspired by the word of God as
revealed in the literal text of the Bible," said Dr de Jong. "The EO
denies all science that falsifies this literal text."
BBC documentaries have been made compatible with creationist views by
replacing spoken English text by an adapted spoken Dutch text, or by
cutting whole scenes. "Nevertheless, such sanitised documentaries are
presented to the Dutch public as BBC documentaries," she said.
In particular, she singled out the EO DVD "Het Leven van Zoogdieren" -
The Life of Mammals. The series is presented as written and "presented
by David Attenborough. Yet it is censored and Episode 10, about apes
and humans, is absent. In short, he said, it appears "in a mutilated
form, cutting or rephrasing all passages relevant to evolution."
"The BBC as producer and copyright holder and the makers of BBC
documentaries have therefore a responsibility towards the Dutch public
to help preserve the broadcasting of scientifically sound nature
documentaries," said Dr de Jong.
In the petition, the biologists call on the BBC to insist the
programmes be broadcast intact, or carry a warning they have been
changed.
A BBC spokesman said: "BBC Worldwide takes the protection of its
brands and content very seriously. With thousands of hours being sold
to hundreds of networks all over the world each year, BBC Worldwide
allows local broadcasters to make edits but only up to a narrow margin
of five minutes per hour.
"Their edits were less than the margin so did not involve BBC
Worldwide on this occasion."
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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| Title: Re: Creationists rewrite natural history |
04 Oct 2007 04:22:17 AM |
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On Oct 4, 9:01 am, "simple_langu...@yahoo.com"
<simple_langu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessi...
The world's best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough,
has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from deleting
references to evolution from his documentaries.
How do christians manage to sustain their illusion of moral
superiority when they are so blatantly dishonest? Maybe it's
fundamental (no pun intended) to the religious psyche to be able to
swallow contradictory positions without getting mental indigestion.
That is, after all, the only way to read the Bible and still take it
seriously.
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| User: "Ghod" |
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| Title: Re: Creationists rewrite natural history |
04 Oct 2007 03:03:05 PM |
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"Nosterill" <fladgate@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1191489737.587963.324260@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
: On Oct 4, 9:01 am, "simple_langu...@yahoo.com"
: <simple_langu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
: >
source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;
jsessi...
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: > The world's best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David
Attenborough,
: > has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from
deleting
: > references to evolution from his documentaries.
:
: How do christians manage to sustain their illusion of moral
: superiority when they are so blatantly dishonest? Maybe it's
: fundamental (no pun intended) to the religious psyche to be able to
: swallow contradictory positions without getting mental indigestion.
: That is, after all, the only way to read the Bible and still take it
: seriously.
It's called cognitive dissonance. Memes need not apply.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Creationists rewrite natural history |
04 Oct 2007 05:45:04 AM |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:22:17 -0700, Nosterill <fladgate@hotmail.com>
wrote:
On Oct 4, 9:01 am, "simple_langu...@yahoo.com"
<simple_langu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessi...
The world's best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough,
has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from deleting
references to evolution from his documentaries.
How do christians manage to sustain their illusion of moral
superiority when they are so blatantly dishonest? Maybe it's
fundamental (no pun intended) to the religious psyche to be able to
swallow contradictory positions without getting mental indigestion.
That is, after all, the only way to read the Bible and still take it
seriously.
It is a clear symptom of infection by the theist meme.
It manipulates its hosts such that they are quite blind to the
hypocrisy, for its own survival, and has evolved to do so very
effectively.
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