"Take Heed" Ministries

Cecil Andrews, PO BOX 13, Ballynahinch, BT24 8AL, Northern Ireland.

Telephone/Fax 028 9756 5511. E-MAIL - takeheed@aol.com

Please send your protest to BBC NI over the use of
licence fee money to tell the 600 million year
theoretical 'history' of the island of Ireland

Dear friends of 'Take Heed',

I received an email from a concerned parent about a series of programmes that BBC Northern Ireland will be airing on TV/Radio/Internet as from 31st March. It will be their biggest single ever expenditure on a series of programmes. In it they will teach the theoretical 600 million year history of the island of Ireland. No reference will be made to a Creator or Intelligent Designer and no reference will be made to important biblical events such as God's 6-day creation or the worldwide flood of Noah's days as recorded in the book of Genesis.

I have spoken with the presenter, William Crawley, who is a 'theistic evolutionist' and explained to him that this will cause great offence to many Christians in Northern Ireland who accept God's account of His own creation as recorded in the book of Genesis. Such Christians will view this expenditure by the BBC as an offensive abuse of their TV licence fee money. He said he hoped that wouldn't happen but I confirmed to him that it has already happened as in the case of the lady who emailed me and myself also.

I will set out shortly the email I received from the concerned parent and then I will set out an email that I would ask you to copy and send to William Crawley as your personal protest to the BBC about this offensive abuse of the licence fee money of Christians in Northern Ireland who accept Genesis as God's account of His own creation.

Yours for His truth and glory

Cecil Andrews

'Take Heed Ministries

www.takeheed.net

Email received from concerned parent

Dear Mr Andrews,

I am a Christian in Northern Ireland and I am very disturbed to discover that the BBC is about to screen a 3-part series on natural history that is a celebration of evolution.

The programme is called BLUEPRINT and is presented by William Crawley, who is well-known in NI as a leading pro-evolution campaigner. He interviewed Ken Ham on radio a couple of years ago.

My daughter's school has received information about the programmes, which start running on March 31 (Monday, 9pm, BBC 1 Northern Ireland). Her school will be using the programmes to teach the story of Ireland's "600 million years" as an island.

I have made some enquiries and discovered the following:

1. This is the biggest TV/radio/internet project the BBC has ever done in NI on any subject. That's my licence fee at work defending evolution! Three TV shows with three follow up tv shows, radio programmes and a new website which must have cost a fortune. (bbc.co.uk/blueprint)

2. Creation has been deliberately removed from the series. No mention of any alternative account of how the world was formed. Jesus has been edited out of our children's education. The schools are going to be using this resource to teach a whole generation about the world without reference to God.

3. The series, according to one person I know who has seen an advance viewing, deliberately refuses to use the word "designed" at any point. It celebrates the accidental evolution of the world in 3 hours of TV which I have helped to pay for.

I am very angry that the BBC, yet again, is siding with evolution in the debate about the origins of the world. These programmes are about to launch a massive attack on the Christian values of our country and I hope Christians can be persuaded to make their voices heard with the BBC. I think this is the most dangerous TV series in NI for years. If possible, I would like to see Christians gather in prayer outside Broadcasting House in protest at this insidious attack on our society's foundational values.

Perhaps your website and network will be able to bring this disgrace to other Christians attention and perhaps we can bring together a sizeable group of people willing to take a stand, literally, outside the BBC on March 31st.

Yours in Christ

MB

Suggested email to sign and send to the presenter William Crawly on william.crawley@bbc.co.uk

Dear Mr Crawley,

In relation to the upcoming series of BLUEPRINT programmes I wish to register my protest to the BBC NI about this offensive abuse of the licence fee money of the many Christians in Northern Ireland who accept God's account of His own Creation as recorded in His Word in the book of Genesis.

I would ask, for the sake of balance, that BBC NI expend a similar amount of finance and give a platform to Scientists, who are Christians and 'Biblical Creationists' to explain the visible scientific evidence that concurs with their beliefs on the origins of the island of Ireland.

Yours faithfully

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