DISQUS

cosanostradamus · 10 months ago

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Plus, he started that kewl dinosaur park. Or was that his brother? Take THAT, God! Six thousand years! HAH!


David just smacked Goliath. But you bloggers might wish he hadn't.
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paulbe · 10 months ago

Maybe you can only own it while you can control the media on which it is disseminated. Once that changes the concept of ownership becomes changed.

cosanostradamus · 10 months ago

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The copyright system has been up-ended by our corporate masters. The creators should always be protected, new creations should always be encouraged and facilitated, consumers should always have ownership of their copies and fair use of them. Corporate profit should never even factor into it, but right now it dominates all other considerations. That's wrong. We have to fix it before it chokes us all off. This deal keeps it out of the Courts, for now, but it will come up again against us wee little bloggers. It's a weapon they won't hesitate to use.
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Rheinhard · 10 months ago

If you want a perfect example of the abuse of the infinite extension of copyright is destroying our cultural heritage, check out how the use of some 80 YEAR OLD SONGS is preventing the distribution of the wonderful animated film "Sita Sings the Blues"...

cosanostradamus · 10 months ago

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Yeah. It's VERY important to feed our artists and to encourage the record companies, etc, to preserve and propagate our cultural heritage. But new creations must be nurtured also, and audiences should have more and cheaper choices. The corporatocracy has to go. They don't understand the word "fair."
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Older_Wiser · 10 months ago

I say cheers for Attenborough! It's good to see someone like him not waffling and standing by the evolutionary process.

I had a similar argument (of sorts--the xtians can't argue successfully about pie in the sky) with a couple of old guys who came by the house while I was doing some gardening one day. It's not uncommon here for people to come around in person asking you to go to their church. Told them I was an atheist and why. They totally could not understand why science, gardening and the study of nature helped me understand why there is no "god" behind everything.

Religion should be considered by psychiatrists and psychologists in their studies of delusional behavior, not as a cure for it, as some have posited. There are certainly more creative ways to stem feelings of insecurity and worthlessness like educating oneself for the positive possibilities life itself has to offer, not what a person believes he or she will be rewarded with after death.

paulbe · 10 months ago

Love it! Always believed that religion, wherever it comes from, is for stupid, ignorant people. Religion never offers answers for anything, only more questions.

jaja · 10 months ago

it's really unfair to very young folks when they ask a question about 'religion' and they get some ridiculous answer and they know it, and is too afraid to engage further.

Gindy · 10 months ago

It's even more unfair when you ask a question they cannot answer and you get punished for it.
That happened to me when I was nine and I lost all belief in any god because of it.

Helen Rainier · 10 months ago

Same thing happened to me. Asked a question that didn't have an easy answer and was completely ignored by the pastor who invited questions.

Turned my back then and have lived the rest of my life that way. No need for organized religion.

Dave of the Jungle · 10 months ago

In Africa, a worm burrows through a child's eyeball. In America, Rush Limbaugh burrows through reality.

The worm can't live any other way...

ChrisS · 10 months ago

Does anybody know what the "ridiculously silly title" is? It's not referenced in the article.

maggiePA08 · 10 months ago

I think he just means the "Sir"!

ChrisS · 10 months ago

That's what I thought, too. I mean knighthood isn't a tradition we have here in the U.S., but I think if you've got somebody dedicating his career to educating people about the truth -- well, if you've got "knight" in your grab bag of awards I say use it. Given the subject of this article, he's obviously jousting with all the right people. :-)

Anal Roberts · 10 months ago

Ask a religious person why God lets the worm burrow through the child's eye, and you'll likely hear "God works in mysterious ways."

That is, of course, a grand cop-out. It's a non-answer that allows religiosos to get away with perpetuating their crap generation after generation.

caphillprof · 10 months ago

A friend's mother was a non-observant Christian Scientist. She had anemia and every couple years or so, she would wear down to the point that she would be put into the hospital and given a pint blood. Every time she returned from the hospital she praised god for her recovery and would deny that the pint of blood had anything to do with it.

ndtovent · 10 months ago

Even though I'm a believer, I can't for the life of me, understand why these extremist views are so distorted. Don't they ever ask themselves whether sending hate mail, making death threats, etc. is the Christian thing to do...? I know they're brainwashed by the fundamentalist cults they join, but it still baffles me.

Rheinhard · 10 months ago

Ah, dear old Sir David. My favorite comment involving him from a friend of mine:

I was watching this nature show and it starts out with a closeup of a man's head. He says "Hello, I'm David Attenbrough...", then the camera pans out and we see he is standing with a bunch of giant lizards at his feetm and says, "...and I'm here in the middle of a bunch of Komodo dragons..."

My friend oncserved, "This is how the British built their Empire... because they're STARK RAVING MAD!"

jeffg166 · 10 months ago

When one is recruited, indoctrinated and brain washed from birth into a religious cult's mythology it's hard not to believe it.

Attenbrough was lucky not to have been subjected to religious mythology at home.

RitornaVincitor · 10 months ago

When are we going to give up that quaint notion that evolution is just a theory? And when are we going to give up that other quaint notion that Christians are loving?

Hymn -- They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love

We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
And we pray that all unity may one day be restored
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
They will know we are Christians by our love

We will work with each other, we will work side by side
We will work with each other, we will work side by side
And we'll guard each one's dignity and save each one's pride
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
They will know we are Christians by our love

And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
Yes they'll know we are Christians by our love

We will walk with each other, we will walk hand in hand
We will walk with each other, we will walk hand in hand
And together we'll spread the news that God is in our land
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
They will know we are Christians by our love

And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love
Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love

Dave of the Jungle · 10 months ago

Universal Gravitation is just a theory.

For some reason, we don't float away into space.

Coemgen · 10 months ago

In that all titles are silly, by definition, Attenborough's Knighthood is as silly as any other .....along with "Mr President", "the Honorable" this and that. At least he has earnt his by a lifetime of work in a field of education and study, so don't be too hard on the old duffer... (sorry, is THAT a title?)!

Punkster · 10 months ago

I love David Attenborough with all my heart and sould and would step over Gleoge Clooney to sit next to him at a dinner party.

And now you tell me this which means that I love him so much I'm afraid there is nothing for me to do but begin stalking him...