From Answers in Genesis

More Anti-Christian Bias in the UK Media

by Simon Turpin on February 12, 2016

On Thursday the Times newspaper had an article titled “Creationist Presenter Dan Walker to Host BBC Breakfast.”1 It was commenting on the BBC’s decision to make Dan Walker, not only a committed Christian but also a biblical creationist, the host of its breakfast show. A section of the article reads: 

Dan Walker has just landed one of television’s most coveted jobs as star of the BBC Breakfastsofa, covering stories that could range from celebrity babies to evolutionary science for its 1.5 million viewers. 

His appointment to the prime-time show has set tongues wagging in the corporation, as fellow journalists ponder how the devout Christian is going to deal with some of the stories that come his way. 

It is not because the 38-year-old sports presenter and son of a Baptist preacher insists on taking Sundays off to practise his faith. It is because he is also a creationist, as confirmed by his spokeswoman last night. 

Creationists believe that the Earth was created by God, with some believing in the literal truth of the Bible’s account that the world was created in six days within the past 10,000 years. 

A senior BBC figure claimed that Walker believed in the truth of the story of creation as told in Genesis. The source had nothing against Walker replacing the current presenter, Bill Turnbull, from the end of this month but found the whole thing a “bit nutty”. 

“It’s quite rare to be a young Earth creationist,” the insider said. “It’s pretty loopsville stuff to believe that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and that the animals went two-by-two into the ark. As a journalist, how can that be?

“It could create difficulties on some stories—say they have a story about an exciting new dinosaur fossil. How is he going to square a fossil that is 75,000 years old with his belief that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old?”

Once again we see the bias in the media by highlighting the beliefs of someone who believes in the biblical account of creation. Of course, to anyone who has not actually taken the time to understand and interact meaningfully with what biblical creationists believe, it is “loopsville.” 

However the media is comfortable with not highlighting the fact that the BBC has atheists such as David Attenborough and Brian Cox presenting and promoting their religious evolutionary worldview on its leading science programs. These atheistic evolutionists are the same people who believe that living organisms evolved from non-living chemicals. Is this not “loopsville”? The vast amount of information contained in the nucleus of a living cell shows that living systems could not have evolved from non-living chemicals. 

Unfortunately, the media, like many individuals in this country, fails to understand that science is interpreted through a worldview. In this case the worldview is naturalism vs. biblical theism. This is important to keep in mind when it comes to considering fossils that are dated to be very old and relating them to the biblical timeframe.

Biblical creationists do not deny scientific evidence nor the methods of measurement that are used to determine the age of things when devoid of millions-of-years presuppositions. Again, what we do point out is that all evidence is interpreted through a bias and that all dating methods to interpret the evidence make several assumptions: 1) the initial conditions are known, 2) the decay rate has stayed constant, and 3) the amount of parent and daughter element is known not to have been altered by other processes in the past. 

For example, Carbon-14, or C-14, actually confirms a young age for the Earth. C-14 breaks down relatively quickly with a half-life of 5,730 years. Material older than about 95,000 years should have no detectable C-14, yet we still find it in coal and diamonds, which are supposed to be millions of years old. The fact that we find C-14 in diamonds confirms the biblical timescale of creation and is a problem for evolutionists.

But will we see the media highlighting these facts anytime soon? Probably not, since the evidence that the world was created only reminds them that they are accountable to their Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1–3; Acts 17:30–31).

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Footnotes

1. Elizabeth Rigby and Kaya Burgess, “Creationist Presenter Dan Walker to Host BBC Breakfast,” Times, February 11, 2016, http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4688035.ece?shareToken=f9e0e14c0c995ea6056e741851d82f4d.

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Historic church discovered in Turkey’s Nevşehir ‘could change history of Orthodoxy’

NEVŞEHİR – Anadolu Agency

Another historical church has been discovered underground during excavations in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, with experts saying the frescoes inside could change the history of Orthodoxy

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Yet another historical church has been unearthed in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia and experts are excited about its frescoes, which depict scenes hitherto unseen.

 The church was uncovered by archeologists during excavation and cleaning work in an underground city discovered as part of the Nevşehir Castle Urban Transformation Project, implemented by the Nevşehir Municipality and Turkey’s Housing Development Administration (TOKI).

The rock-carved underground church is located within a castle in the center of Nevşehir that spreads over an area of 360,000 square meters, within a third-degree archaeological site that includes 11 neighborhoods in the city center.

Nevşehir Mayor Hasan Ünver said the frescoes in the church showed the rise of Jesus the Christ into the sky and the killing of the bad souls.

“We know that such frescoes have so far never been seen in any other church,” Ünver said, adding that preliminary studies show the church might date back to the 5th century A.D.

“This place is even bigger than the other historical churches in Cappadocia. It was built underground and has original frescoes that have survived to this day,” he said.

“We didn’t even think of finding such a structure when we first started works. But excavations and cleaning work are continuing and we hope to find new data relating to the history of Cappadocia,” the mayor said.

“It is reported that some of the frescoes here are unique. There are exciting depictions like fish falling from the hand of Jesus Christ, him rising up into the sky, and the bad souls being killed. When the church is completely revealed, Cappadocia could become an even bigger pilgrimage center of Orthodoxy,” Ünver added.

Most of the church is underground 

Archaeologist Semih İstanbulluoğlu, who heads the works in the underground city and the church, said the thin walls of the church collapsed because of snow and rain but they would be fixed during restorations.

İstanbulluoğlu said the church was filled with earth and the pieces of frescoes had to be collected one by one.
“The structure was found a short time ago. The frescoes on the walls will return to their original look after restoration and cleaning work,” he added.

Fellow archaeologist Ali Aydın said only the roof of the church could be seen, so information about the height of the structure would only be understood after the cleaning work.

Aydın said the humidity in the church had to be dried up slowly in order to prevent the frescoes from losing their features.

“We have stopped work in order to protect the wall paintings and the church. When the weather gets warmer in the spring, we will wait for humidity to evaporate and then we will start removing the earth,” he said.

Aydın added that the side walls of the church were still underground and the frescoes there may still be intact.

“Only a few of the paintings have been revealed. Others will emerge when the earth is removed. There are important paintings in the front part of the church showing the crucifixion of Jesus and his ascension to heaven. There are also frescoes showing the apostles, the saints and other prophets Moses and Elyesa,” he said, adding that they had also found the real entrance of the church used in the past but had yet to expose it.

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