SIR DAVID TAKES THE PLUNGE

SIR DAVID TAKES THE PLUNGE TO SAVE PLANET EARTH.

Opening my newspaper the other day and being confronted with this image of David Attenborough put me right off my breakfast. I cannot believe for one minute, after performing this stunt, that he expects anyone to take him seriously. The article claims that he decided to take the plunge and abseil down a 50ft wall at his old university to draw attention to the greatest conservation challenge facing the world. Yes you have guessed it! Climate change.

One reporter remarked that the image reminded him of four large sacks of potatoes being hauled on board a ship bound for the West Indies, and that Sir David had done himself no favours, looking as he does, like a great buffoon trussed up in red ropes and wearing a crash helmet, and as a concerned citizen he demanded to be shown the risk assessment documents and a health and safety certificate giving the all clear for a 90 year old to undertake such a stupid and reckless pursuit.

The report goes on to tell us that the daring exploit celebrated the opening of Cambridge University’s David Attenborough Building and the creation of a global conservation hub.
It would appear that this initiative brings together the largest cluster of conservation groups and researchers in the world, in that, together, they would be able to tackle its greatest conservation challenges.
Sir David had this to say:

The future of our life on earth is dependent on the natural world:

• For the air we breathe
• For the food we eat
• For the water we use
• And for the feelings we have of awe and wonder at nature’s extraordinary riches.
• We are learning more and more about the intricacies of our dependence on nature and yet our natural world is threatened as never before.
  
• The threats are numerous and interrelated and no one institution can hope to address them all alone
• And by bringing together leaders in research, practice and policy and teaching, we stand the greatest chance of developing the solutions required to save our planet.

After reading this report I have to say I get the feeling we are all having the wool pulled over our eyes.
By the way, to pull the wool over someone’s eyes means to deceive or fool someone, and is probably from when wigs were worn by judges. Someone who had succeeded in fooling a judge likened this to physically pulling his wig down until he could not see properly.
It also means to conceal one’s true motives from, especially by elaborately feigning good intentions, so as to gain an end;
He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well.

I don’t know about you but I like the second explanation because it seems to fit with Mr Attenborough’s credentials and intentions. So often Mr Attenborough displays an impressive intellect and knowledge of animals, birds, insects and all their habitats and habits and we marvel at the most stunning photography the world has ever seen of these creatures and what they get up to.
And yet, never does he acknowledge that there is a Creator.
Never does he speak about the fact that God made all of the things he marvels at and expects us to marvel at.
Almost without fail he will utter these preposterous words:
....this species or that insect, or that animal evolved over millions and millions of years into what we are looking at….without offering a single shred of evidence to prove it!
He goes on to tell us that the future of our life on earth depends on the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we use as if these things are new inventions, and it is he who has discovered them!

But then he goes and gives the game away by saying: Our future on earth depends on the feelings we have of awe and wonder at nature’s extraordinary riches.

What I find odd is that no-one has challenged him on what he says and what he believes. He has made it very clear that he believes in evolution and that there is no God and yet he sees nothing wrong in having one foot in the evolution camp and the big toe of the other in feelings of awe and wonder at nature’s (read God’s creation) extraordinary riches, which is rather sneaky to say the least!

I find everything about Sir David Attenborough rather sad, he is 90+ years old and for all intents and purposes he does not have long to go before he comes face to face with his Maker – but by then it will be too late.

Equally sad is that his articulations and beliefs will appear in school books across the world and millions will believe, hook, line and sinker what he believes. Likewise the leaders in research, practice, policy and teaching at this new hub of ‘learning’ will spread their twisted and distorted findings far and wide.

Finally, if you are serious about finding out what is really going to happen to the world in which we live, may I strongly suggest that you put down books written by those mentioned above and pick up the Bible where you will find the truth!

Perhaps Mr Attenborough and his cluster of conservation groups would care to consider the following verses of Scripture: I really pray that they do, because it would save them making complete fools of themselves!

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Psalm 19:1-2

Are we living in the last days?
You had better believe it!