Creationists rewrite natural history – Telegraph — — The big news in England is the sudden restructuring of the BBC including massive layoffs. Since this is a non-profit organization paid for by taxes, exactly what changed? Until recently the organization was hyper-critical of Bush and the right-wing. But has this perhaps been changed to a new Christian fundamentalist direction? Are they now kow-towing to creationists? I think so. Curiously the first evidence of this appears in licensed content broadcast in, of all places, Holland.

The world’s best known wildlife broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, has called on the BBC to stop Christian fundamentalists from deleting references to evolution from his documentaries.

Censored versions of Sir David’s award winning programmes have been broadcast in Holland without any references to evolution, speciation, descent and timescales of millions of years, after being censored by Christian creationists who are opposed to Charles Darwin’s ideas.

“Instead of saying “70 million years ago, something happens,” they say “a very long time ago something happens”. They also omit paragraphs such as: “This is inherited from my warm-blooded ancestors,”” Sir David told the Telegraph. “I would much rather they kept to the letter, as far as that is possible, of what I said.”