@UltimateChungus: ...By golly, so it is.
@Comfy_Arms: From what I've seen, you're the one refusing to stick to the Word of God. It's not enough for you, somehow, that God thinks it's more important to pay the father of your rape victim (in a kind of "you break it you buy it" deal) than it is to wash your hands every once in a while—you've got to go outside the Good Book to prove to yourself that the god who says you ought to kill disobedient kids and lays down a whole ton of rules for how to do slavery correctly is, in fact, the only arbiter of moral right and wrong there has ever been.
I don't see why. I never questioned any of that as a kid, and frankly I still don't now. Of course it's moral to buy and sell and keep slaves! Just follow God's laws about how to do it, and you're all set. Naturally the blind and the lame and the flat-nosed and broken-handed and what-have-you shouldn't be allowed in the house of the Lord. If he wanted them there he'd heal them, wouldn't he!
And as for the scientific errors, well, who says God can't change reality if he wants to? Maybe he brought back the Canaanites after they were annihilated, changed ants from individuals with no captain, no supervisor, no ruler, to colonies headed by queens, decided the moon shouldn't be a light after all but rather reflect light, made the firmament stop being a solid roof over the world, etc. Why not? "God did it" explains everything and anything.
It certainly explains the lack of evidence. "God decided there shouldn't be any."
Edit: Sleep well.
@DarrenWalker I'm not sure why you're bringing all sorts of distractions into the discussion again. It seems that you're trying to say that God is strange and unpleasant in your opinion and therefore he can't be real. But God's existence and your opinion of him are two separate things. So let's get back to my still unanswered question and tell me how the ingenious molecular machinery in the cell and the complex coding system in the DNA came into existence without a Designer. Give examples of that happening today.
The reason we have to go this route is because your argument above is flawed. It's like this analogy: You were given a car and in the glove compartment you find the manual written by the manufacturer. And in that manual it tells you how to change the oils in the engine and transmission, and how often to do that. And you then say to yourself "that's horrible! That oil stinks and it's a nasty job to change it and messes up my clothes. So I don't believe that this car was designed and manufactured but came about by natural processes because a manufacturer would never tell me to do this dirty oil change job. And that manual must have been written by stupid desert dwelling petrol heads who didn't know any better. " You may think that analogy is ridiculous and you'd never say that about a car. But that reinforces my point. You wouldn't say that about the car because you acknowledge it has a manufacturer because you recognise design in the car that cannot be explained by natural processes. Similarly, you need to open your eyes to evidence of design in living things (and even in non living things in the universe) that point to the existence of the Designer. Read Michael Behe's book "Darwin's black box" which explains irreducible complexity to understand why design in living things cannot come about by small incremental changes over many generations. Read Werner Gitt's book "Without excuse" to learn about information theory and that information always originates from an intelligent mind, and what this tells us about the source of the information in DNA. Read a book like "How the flood shaped the world" so you can see the evidence for God's watery judgment in the landscapes that you drive or hike through and know that the bible speaks factually about historical events. In the bible God has already said you are without excuse for not acknowledging his existence because he made it known by the things he has made (Romans 1:18-20) so get clued up on the things I suggested so that your faith in God is based on sound reasoning. God doesn't expect you to have blind unreasoning faith. He gave you a mind to think. If your brain is the product of random chance processes, how could you trust its conclusions? Anyway, once your faith in the existence of God is firm, you can start working on those things in the bible that irk you. Many of them will resolve once you understand cultural and societal differences and God's purposes in making these rulings. You must also understand that we live in a fallen world, marred by the curse and temporarily ruled by Satan and his minions, and God chooses for now to work within those constraints but not for much longer. He has let Satan run his course to show the whole universe that disregarding God's word and doing things Satan's way results in death and misery and suffering. Soon that "experiment" will be brought to and end and God will restore everything to its pre-fall state. What excuse will you give Him then for refusing to acknowledge Him as the Creator? How will you answer Him when he asks why you disregarded the advice his servant Henry so tediously tapped out on his cellphone for your benefit? Come on brother, time is short. Time to ditch the excuses and get serious with your Creator. And if you want to understand more about the cosmic conflict between God and Satan, read "The great controversy" by Ellen White.
A lot of hack writers are making coin working for God’s propaganda machine.
@Comfy_Arms I've been reading through your posts and, with the greatest respect, I have noticed a number of errors of both fact and logic. Forgive me for being so blunt, but I think clarity is helpful.
Just because thing X had a designer, as a matter of logic this is not evidence that thing Y had a designer. Even if things A to X had a designer, that's still not evidence that Y did. Just because you can prove that a car was designed, it doesn't mean that you have proved that a lightning strike on Venus was.
You are quite correct that evolution is not a fact. It isn't. It is a scientific theory. As such it has nothing to say about how the universe came into existence, or why. We know it is a very good theory, because the results it predicts are very similar to the results we observe.
Evolution does make testable predictions, and around the world hundreds of such experiments are done each day. One of the species most commonly used is fruit flies: they are very robust and breed very quickly, making them ideally suited to such studies. In my experience the scientists often become quite attached to their fruit flies, and breed dozens of generations.
It is also the case the questions of evolution and origin are often conflated in conversations of this nature, but in fact they are distinct and should not be discussed together. Whether the universe was or was not created by god doesn't tell us anything at all about whether evolution is a useful theory or not.
To return to the OP's question, the answer is no, future dinosaurs or indeed anybody else are not likely to dig up fossils of us humans and put is in musuems.
These days, most people are cremated.
Third floor....Lingerie.
I am starting to believe....that God is a True Crime fan.
@CuddleDuncan: Ooh. I didn't consider cremation at all. Good one.
Off topic:
I've responded to @Comfy_Arms in PM. The gist of the message: I'm not trying to disprove God, for Pete's sake, my whole point is that he can't be disproved (or proved). A completely useless hypothesis, the god one is. But if you're going to believe it, at least go all in!