British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough receives hate mail from creationists
Veteran broadcaster and documentary maker Sir David Attenborough says he has received letters from creationists telling him to “Burn in Hell” after not crediting God in his natural history documentaries.
Fred Drummond, director of the Scottish branch of the Evangelical Alliance, notes that this hatred is “not representative of Evangelical Christians in the UK.”
During an interview with BBC Radio 2 Attenborough was asked why he did not credit God in his shows, he replied saying how he always remembers a little child in East Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way. “I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator,” Attenborough said.
Attenborough had previously criticized schools for teaching creationism alongside evolution. He said it was “terrible” when the two were taught as equal, He added “Evolution is not a theory, it’s a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.”
Attenborough joined the BBC in 1952 and created several series on the animal kingdom. His most recent documentary, a series about Charles Darwin and evolution, is due to be broadcast in the UK at the beginning of February.
- British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough receives hate mail from creationists
- “Attenborough ‘received hate mail’“. BBC News Online, January 27, 2009
- Craig Brown “Burn in Hell, Christians tell David Attenborough“. The Scotsman, January 27, 2009
- Russell Grigg “Sir David Attenborough: so much to live for; nothing to die for!“. Creation Ministries International, June 20, 2008
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February 4th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
While I do believe in God, I certainly don't believe that He is benevolent or fair. Moreover, I am NOT a creationist nor do I completely (although mostly do) buy evolution.____I certainly don't like either fundamentalist attitude: either that God made the earth in 7 days, like it or lump it, or else the rabid anti-theism that evolution is often abused to support. ____I also don't like the casual bandying about of the terms "hate-mail," "hate-speech," and any of its several thousand derivatives. May I see the full context of the "burn in hell" quote? I'll judge for myself whether its hate or deserved condemnation. After all, most "dead-beat" dads aren't. They are just beat dead.