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David Attenborough's "burn in hell" hate mail

Sir David Attenborough interview

 Started by Bling , Oct 03 2012 10:32 PM

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:28 AM

Personally, I think there is room for God and evolution.

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:31 AM

View PostHilander, on 03 October 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:

They shouldn't be sending him hate mail.  Just don't listen to him if you don't like what he has to say.  At least no one has put a hit out on him or tried to burn his house down like some religious people do.

Yet...

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:36 AM

If you don't believe in God, threaten them by saying they'll go to a place underground for eternity burning and that they are a pimple on society. :tu:

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 05:20 AM

Love both his voice and this commentary.
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 06:10 AM

View Postcoldethyl, on 04 October 2012 - 12:28 AM, said:

Personally, I think there is room for God and evolution.
Not the Biblical God, unless you're willing to admit he (or his authors) fibbed a bit in genesis.

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 06:30 AM

I regularly receive hate mail telling me 'I'll burn in hell'...must cost the wife a fortune in stamps... :unsure:

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 06:38 AM

I'm not sure why Attenborough would dignify such ignorance by mentioning it. Imagine what Dawkin's hate mail would be like !

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 07:10 AM

View PostGummug, on 03 October 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

And then there is also this:

Or this:
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 08:54 AM

Seriously everybody who is famous should make a website just dedicated to their hate mail and post it because that stuff is usually hilarious, especially when its directed towards you.

View PostRlyeh, on 04 October 2012 - 06:10 AM, said:

Not the Biblical God, unless you're willing to admit he (or his authors) fibbed a bit in genesis.

Actually with the Bible as it is in context you can swing it. You view the story of genesis as symbolic instead of literal and it fits quite well. Adam and Eve being a story about man gaining self-awareness separating us from our ancestors.
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 09:13 AM

View PostJinxdom, on 04 October 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

Actually with the Bible as it is in context you can swing it. You view the story of genesis as symbolic instead of literal and it fits quite well. Adam and Eve being a story about man gaining self-awareness separating us from our ancestors.
How does the mythical flood fit in?

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Posted 04 October 2012 - 09:39 AM

Watch Penn and Teller BS for that one. There was a great flood in the area before it was written. Stories of great floods and embellishing the truth in stories been around forever. Literally wasn't a great flood that covered the whole world but a flood that covered "their world" at the time. Look at it like the interpretation from Evan Almighty setting the ark as a random act of kindness and the story makes a little more sense. Another symbolic story.
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 10:12 AM

View PostAlienated Being, on 03 October 2012 - 11:01 PM, said:

Pardon my French, but how the **** can you deny evolution? It is just as observable as gravity.
No its not. It requires considerable education and a knowledge of science to understand evolution and its place /role, Most modern western people believe in evolution because it is the cultural norm. But the belief is the same form as some people believe in creation.

Once upon a time, a belief in creation was the cutural norm. If evoution was at all observable in a normal person's life and lifespan, why wasn't it described and understood until the 1800s and why did it take charles darwin to codify it. Oh sur e NOW it seems quite obvious but it never was and it stil wouldn't be to an ordinary person, without the gradual scientificc understanding of its nature and process. Its like  bacteria Everyone "knows" they exist now, but how? How many of us have actually seen one?

My wife only did a few years of high school back in the 1940s and no sceince subjects as such because women didnt do science then. She sees god in every part of the natural world, is a creationist and cant understand how others cant see this also. I am an evolutioist. She loves david attenborough programmes, and him as a person /presenter, but she feels sorry for him because in her own world view, he doesnt know the truth about god and god's creation. She just watches the beauty and listens to him about species  behaviour habitat etc but doesnt believe a word he says about evolution.
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 10:13 AM

View PostThePhantomFlanFlinger, on 04 October 2012 - 06:30 AM, said:

I regularly receive hate mail telling me 'I'll burn in hell'...must cost the wife a fortune in stamps... :unsure:
Shes not into emails yet?
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 01:32 PM

I didn't see the interview ,I wonder if he said it bothered him being told that he would  burn in hell.
It wouldn't bother me at all ,as there is no hell and Pope John Paul confirmed this



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