Blueprint ... it's getting close
As readers of this blog will know, I spent most of last year filming a major new television natural history series called "Blueprint". The series was produced by Natalie Maynes and Carole O'Kane -- who have lived and breathed rocks, dinosaurs and woolly mammoths for the better part of 18 months -- with executive producer Paul McGuiggan keeping us all in line. The series attempts to tell the story of 600 million years of natural history -- or, in the words of our website blurb, "how we got here and what we all came from. Using stunning special effects the series uncovers some amazing facts about the land around us." That doesn't come close to summing up the series. The Blueprint brand is uniting TV, radio and the internet in the most ambitious multi-platform project we've ever attempted at Ö÷²¥´óÐã Northern Ireland. I'll be writing more about the project for newspapers in the next few days, but look out for the media campaign that has already begun. We'll have billboards across Northern Ireland, TV and radio trails, newspaper ads, and lots more, including a major educational outreach project for schools and a dedicated new website on the natural history of Northern Ireland. The first programme is screened on Monday, 31 March at 9pm on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One NI.
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William this programme is completely fabricated. The world is not millions of years old, it is the work of a divine creator (not evolution, as you seem to believe) and it is no more than about 6-8 thousand years old. the 4004BC dating may be a little out, depending on how genealogies are calculated in the Bible, but the great James Ussher wasn't far wrong! How can you put out this stuff as fact when it's just a lot of scientific guesswork?
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PTL, welcome to the Pit of Doom.
PTL is (I hope!) a bit of satire!
Is it too much to hope that the Christian view of origins will get a fair hearing on this programme?
After all, 'Blueprint' surely implies design?!
Philip,
I do not believe Jesus was God incarnate, but nor do many Christians.
I do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead, but nor do many Christians.
I do not believe that Jesus performed miracles, but nor do many Christians.
I do believe in evolution, but so do many Christians.
Am I therefore a Christian, even though I am a Humanist?
So stop assuming that there is a single 'Christian view' on everything.
PTL is a big tease: he knows Bishop Ussher got his sums wrong. He missed the '1' before the '4' and the other six noughts. But his 23rd October was spot on!
Brian,
I would have thought a 'Christian Humanist' was a contradiction in terms! I honestly don't recognise the kind of 'christian' you were describing!
Anyway, the point I was hinting at (obviously not clearly enough!)is that while the Ö÷²¥´óÐã seem very happy to spend thousands of pounds to push evolutionary theory, the Biblical view - which a huge number of people believe - rarely gets a fair hearing.
Seems to me they fear the cogent case for creation.....
Philip,
Brian was making the point that you said "Christian view", now not all Christians are Biblical creationists, indeed intelligent Christians have no problem with science-perhaps that is the reason why you had problems recognising them?
It does not matter how many people hold the "Biblical view"-it does not make it true. OK the Ö÷²¥´óÐã makes a programme on Biblical creationism(I have no objections and I could do with a laugh), the thing is Philip the creationists watching it on their tellys will be doing so with electricity generated though fossil fuels sourced through scientific methods and predictions eg., the Earth billions of years old. Moreover it gets worse! as they will drive to watch it on cars powered by petrol/diesel sourced through these methods and their homes will be heated etc indeed every source of fossil fuels use the same method!
Rev Campbell could you assure us here that your church(and home,car etc) is heated and lighted through power companies that use creationist predictions? If not you will come across as being a bit of a "false prophet and hypocrite".
Regards
DD
Philip:
I have some familiarity with Quakerism and I would say that if you strip away the theology there is not a great deal of difference ethically between Quakers and Humanists. Tolerance, compassion, belief in the essential equality of human beings, are shared values and to me far more important than dogma, as if a good god would care a fig what way you chose to acknowledge him.
All labels are open to interpretation, and those which are attached to beliefs involve normative not positive concepts. In other words, there is no objective definition of a Christian or a Humanist. But we should strive to communicate our thoughts without being hung up on individual words and without assuming that we alone are privy to their true meaning. It’s the thought that counts, not the label.
On the other issue, haven’t the Ö÷²¥´óÐã just spent thousands upon thousands on ‘the Passion’? Don’t they spend millions of my money every year on religious programmes? On Thoughts for the Day? And Sunday Sequences? And Father D’Arcys? And Sounds Sacred? And John Andersons? Sunday on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Ulster, Philip, is a veritable Jesusfest! What more do you want?
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