Another Michael asked:

Will human beings be annihilated like dinosaurs one day? If the answer is yes, does it make any
sense for human beings to still believe in GOD?

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First let me say that for me anyone may believe anything.

Your first question is rhetoric. As you probably well know nobody has the answer. But surely humanity
vanishing is not impossible. Democritus already said: everything in the universe is a matter of chance.

Second question: Does any belief (i.e. a god-belief) depend on the answer of the first question? The
answer is twofold: IF you belief life has another sense than living and make the best of it THEN the
answer could be yes. ELSE IF you believe living is only aiming for some kind of progress THEN the
answer is not influenced by humanity being annihilated or not.

Because the dinosaurs got annihilated humans could progress. So after humans there probably be
other beings that continue progress.

Believing in GOOD and BAD leads to questions like yours. Getting erased was a BAD thing for
dinosaurs, but GOOD for humans. So should one be happy that dinosaurs disappeared? The
dinosaur-GOD probably thought else wise, was that a different GOD then the one for humans?

In a relativist view GOOD and BAD depends on the system of knowledge. The absolutist (dogmatic
and non-secular or not) thinks there is only one knowledge system (or truth).

Henk Tuten