David Attenborough on Darwin
Sir David Attenborough has traveled the majority of the world and experienced first hand the incredible diversity of life through his production of natural history documentaries for the BBC. In the following video, produced by Nature, he discusses the great implications of Darwin‘s theory of common descent through natural selection and suggests how the belief in the dominion of man over the planet, as evoked by the Bible, has helped to contribute to our current array of environmental dilemmas.
British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.
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Attenborough’s speculation regarding the religious implications on belief in climate change was recently examined in a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the results of which are not all that surprising and are given below:
