Tuesday, February 13, 2007

David Attenborough

Is really an amazing man. Blue Planet, Life in the Undergrowth, The Life of Mammals--they all give me such pleasure to watch. He's so thoughtful, nonsensationalist while not pulling punches. And not a creationist. Here's what he says when people talk to him about Creation:

My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy.'

No kidding.

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