Excising Evolution

I don’t watch much Dutch TV, I find little of it to be worthwhile; and I certainly don’t watch any of the output of the EO (Evangelische Omproep), the religious broadcasting company here in the Netherlands. So I missed the fact that the EO had licensed David Attenborough’s great Life of Mammals series. The EO has both broadcast it, and made it available on DVD with Dutch dubbing and subtitles.

 

But the real news is that the EO has also excised any references that Attenborough makes to evolution. Here’s two examples, shown in a side by side comparison:

 

    

While I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at this, I still find this pretty disgusting behaviour by the EO. More examples of this rewriting of reality to fit their creationist folklore can be found here.

 

(hat tip to Phil Plait, over at The Bad Astronomer, for drawing my attention to this)