I dont know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, Why dont you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation? And I always say, well, when you say that, youve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, thats got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate
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David Attenborough was a 20th-century British broadcaster and naturalist. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer. First becoming prominent as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, his filmography as a writer, presenter and narrator has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine nature documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. Read more on Wikipedia →