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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Jason Spaceman" |
| Date: |
07 Jan 2005 11:50:20 PM |
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In the News: Public TV Station Pulls Documentary |
From the article:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The PBS television station in Albuquerque pulled a
documentary on evolution after discovering it was funded by evangelical
Christian groups.
The show, "Unlocking the Mystery of Life," challenges Darwin's theory of
evolution. It had been slated to air Friday night, in a time slot reserved for
the science show "Nova."
"The funders of this program have a clear and specific agenda that they openly
promote," said Joan Rebecchi, KNME-TV's marketing manager.
"KNME has no position regarding this agenda, but we must guard against the
public perception that editorial control might have been exercised by the
program funders," she said.
Chad Davis, KNME program manager, said the show lists five Christian
organizations as funders, including the Crowell Trust, whose Web site says it
promotes "the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of evangelical
Christianity through approved grants to qualified organizations."
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Read it at http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/82-01072005-428554.html
J. Spaceman
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Public TV Station Pulls Documentary |
09 Jan 2005 09:19:08 PM |
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In article <QuCdnd7lT4aHuELcRVn-1w@rogers.com>,
notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org says...
From the article:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The PBS television station in Albuquerque pulled a
documentary on evolution after discovering it was funded by evangelical
Christian groups.
The show, "Unlocking the Mystery of Life," challenges Darwin's theory of
evolution. It had been slated to air Friday night, in a time slot reserved for
the science show "Nova."
"The funders of this program have a clear and specific agenda that they openly
promote," said Joan Rebecchi, KNME-TV's marketing manager.
"KNME has no position regarding this agenda, but we must guard against the
public perception that editorial control might have been exercised by the
program funders," she said.
Chad Davis, KNME program manager, said the show lists five Christian
organizations as funders, including the Crowell Trust, whose Web site says it
promotes "the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of evangelical
Christianity through approved grants to qualified organizations."
These assholes were offered airtime to conduct a debate on the merits of
evolution versus intelligent design. The creationists refused such a
debate. They merely wanted to present their religious propaganda with
no counterpoint from actually biological scientists.
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"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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