I got an email today from National Geographic. They have a series called Bible Hunters. Some investigative journalism on the history of the Bible, I guess, which is all well and good. It’s a pretty well-known set of texts (if not accurately known).
But I was also watching a YouTube video produced by National Geographic called The Bible’s Buried Secrets National Geographic Documentary HD. I very rarely see such bias ‘journalism’ from reputable names like yours. My comments:
This video begins interesting but not too much later gives a poor impression. At 12:00, the video loses ground (no pun intended). Genesis chapter 8 states the rains lasted 40 days & nights. It says the water subsided, not the rains, after 150 days. These are two different concepts. One sentence states it rain, and one states the waters started receding. As well, it clearly states that first a raven was sent out and then, later, a dove. Why is this contradictory? It seems to me that it isn’t. I thought this documentary would rely on ‘documents’ (“documentary”?), but so far it doesn’t hold water (again, no pun intended). It’s like someone saying, “I ate eggs for breakfast and pasta for lunch,” and someone else saying, “Well which is it – which did you eat – eggs or pasta?”
So forgive me, NGM; although I have thoroughly enjoyed your magazines, have a collection of them in paper and electronic form, and have a library of your videos, your journalism shows your true colours.
National Geographic Magazine collectoin 20181216_145317.jpg
National Geographic Video Collections DVD set 20181216_145439.jpg
National Geographic, 109 Years of National Geographic Magazine on CD-ROM 20181216_145407.jpg
