The Attenborough Mystery (The atheist delusion)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 11:02 (5771 days ago) @ dhw

I couldn't find any statement on the Sunday Times website in which David Attenborough said explicitly that he was an atheist. Are you sure you read it in the printed version, or is it just your interpretation of his, possibly somewhat ambiguous, statements? Anyway "never believe what you read in the newspapers" is a good rule. Wikipedia, which DT cites, can usually be relied on, since the contributions of its subscribers are subject to natural selection. - I've been busy trying to get a Hastings Humanists group started, by advertising an inaugural meeting to be held on Darwin Day, 12 February. I've set up a blog for the purpose: - http://hastingshumanists.blogspot.com/ - So I shall be calling myself a humanist in preference from now on. Terms such as agnostic and atheist in any case are just fighting an old outdated battle, like those over phlogiston or caloric or aether, that have no importance for modern everyday life.

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GPJ