10-01-2022, 10:30 AM
In a December 2005 interview with BBC Radio Five Live"
Attenborough stated that he considers himself an agnostic.
When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story, making reference to the parasitic worm:
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'.
He has explained that he feels the evidence all over the planet clearly shows
evolution to be the best way to explain the diversity of life, and that "as far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then he chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world."
Attenborough was asked if he at any time had any religious faith. He replied simply, "No He has also said "It never really occurred to me to believe in God".
"There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it ill behoves any of us
To find fault with the rest of us."
Anon
"Oh love is a wonderful cycle of song,
a model of extemporanea.
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Rumania. "
Dorothy Parker
Attenborough stated that he considers himself an agnostic.
When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story, making reference to the parasitic worm:
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'.
He has explained that he feels the evidence all over the planet clearly shows
evolution to be the best way to explain the diversity of life, and that "as far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then he chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world."
Attenborough was asked if he at any time had any religious faith. He replied simply, "No He has also said "It never really occurred to me to believe in God".
"There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it ill behoves any of us
To find fault with the rest of us."
Anon
"Oh love is a wonderful cycle of song,
a model of extemporanea.
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Rumania. "
Dorothy Parker
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)