Actually, birds are the dinosaurs of today, being the only modern-day creatures that are descended from them. The article below from the Natural History Museum's website explains this.
you could argue but you'd be wrong about the key elements of it
we have an active planetary surface, some mountains were once sea beds. it's how tectonics works
I would take a little bit of issue with this. For example pterodactyl was not a dinosaur, technically. However it really was, I know this because I watched jurassic Park. David Attenborough wouldn't do a documentary that wasn't fact checked.
I would disagree. For me it stands up as a moral guide very well, even the much quoted Ghandi agreed. The Bible is not the problem, we are. The Bible is made up of 66 books 39 in the Hebrew Scriptures & 27 in the Christian Greek. The modern day translations are commonly from a number of sources such as Aramaic Targums, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Torah, the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, the Masoretic Text, the Cairo Codex, the Aleppo Codex. Translation of the Bible has always been meticulous (until the KJ version where the divine right of kings was added), in fact Hebrew copyists, or scribes, did not just "copy" they counted every word and letter to ensure it matched with the original they were copying, this was then checked and confirmed. The earliest know sections date from the mid 2nd century CE, considering John (the last apostle) died around 96 CE that's not a huge time gap. I think that you will find the more you examine the evidence (historical & secular) you will discover its not as "black & white" as you think. My advice is don't be "lazy" and just accept what so called "educated" people tell you, i spent a full 4 years examining the Bible from a historical point of view before i came to my conclusions. But hey ho what do I know?
I am not sure about the moral guide standing up to scrutiny. The biblical God is pretty vengeful and there are passages in, I think, Leviticus, but I may be wrong, that lists the offences for which the death penalty is prescribed, homosexuality and swearing at mom and dad, actually I think it is cursing mom and dad, which in biblical terms probably means something a bit different to today's meaning. However, I wouldn't hold that up as an example of worthy morals.
Not sure I understated the "Cane & Abel" reference considering Cane smashed his Brothers head in. As for Leviticus some of the rules may seem harsh by today's standards but when you consider what the nations around the Jews were up to, burning your firstborn alive was one of there favorites. You can pick things out willy nilly but the Law Covenant had a purpose, but i'm not here to teach people or "convert" them but to highlight where people are either plainly wrong regarding JW's or misinformed.
He was a very vengeful b'stard without doubt. Gave us free choice then punished us for exercising our free choice. Repeatedly choosing to create famine, pestilence, plague, and genocide on a massive scale because he was in a bad mood. Chills out a bit later after sacrificing his son to 'save us', but then he didn't sacrifice him because you know rise from teh dead and he's an immortal god anyway....bizarre
It's horrific from a moral perspective, punishing your own daughter for being raped, in fact the general attitude to women is bad, supports the idea of slavery, promotes a hatred of 'heathens' too.
It's pretty easy to review the bible and see how little historical evidence there is to support any of it, I don't need other so called educated people to tell me, I can and have reviewed and analysed myself. It's a bag of nonsense.....at best. But like you say each to their own, I utterly respect your right to believe that nonsense isn't nonsense, just as long as you keep it out of impacting other peoples lives.
Self praise is no recommendation.
When I joined the Terriers we all put C of E in the "religion" box.
