According to Bible, people were living over 900 years before the deluge, and creationists explain why, if someone believes that.I don't. Thanks!
And this is only a small part, like many findings/options/etc. According to Bible, people were living over 900 years before the deluge, and creationists explain why, if someone believes that.This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
I figure that part of the book is really old, has been retold, translated and transcribed a lot.
Sometimes I wonder if maybe they only lived , say, 900 months. Wouldn't that be remarkable in the stone or bronze age, before sanitation, medicine, nutrition, parasitology, etc.? I think so. Or maybe somebody moved a decimal or comma or put down an extra zero.
I never gave the long lives a lot of thought, but I never took the account of very much in the book of Genesis as literally true. A 900-year lifespan is hardly the most difficult thing in the narrative to reconcile with what we now know is possible.If you're willing to let go of keeping your ridiculous PPD up, you can do this.
-As far as the healthy living part, it's certainly true that there's a lot most of us can do to increase our chances at health and long life - the first step, is I gotta get up out of this chair more.
This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
He wrote hundreds of essays, and some of my favorites are about time and the calendar. One of his essay collections is called Science, Numbers, and I. I'm not sure, but the one I refer to above may be in this volume.This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
Thank You. Well, I don't think I've read his essays, but apparently it occurred to him first.
It was found, that after the Deluge, or Flood, people started to live considerably shorter. Here is an article, that explains why:
http://www.examiner.com/article/global-flood-and-cancer (http://www.examiner.com/article/global-flood-and-cancer)
In short, before the Flood Earth had a kind of atmospheric water layer, or high temperature water vapor due to radiation, or some say could be ice, on higher altitude? Anyway, this provided shielding from ionizing radiation from the Sun. Now we cannot escape this, unless maybe at the bottom of the ocean.
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But I'm not sure I accept this premise from your link-
1Ionizing radiation affected the earth after the Global Flood, but not before. As Brown discusses elsewhere, every radioactive element in the earth's crust formed during the Global Flood event. Magnitude-10-to-12 earthquakes deformed the quartz in the earth's crust. This generated megavolt electric potentials. These sufficed to turn large amounts of heavy elements into plasma. The plasma fused and formed super-heavy elements. These then split or cluster-decayed to form uranium, thorium, and the other heavier-than-lead elements. All this produced background radiation human beings had never before known.
I don't think new elements are formed at low, life sustaining temperatures. Is cold fusion a proven fact? I thought you naturally needed supernovae and such, or artificial nuclear reactions to create new atoms. All of the heavier than lead elements in the Earth's crust were created during or since the Great Flood? That sounds.... rather unlikely.
I didn't go to college, and even my high school education is outdated by today's standards. I could be wrong.
This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
It's difficult to say that, though, as then you'd also have to cut down the rest of the stuff in that passage similarly, meaning that Enoch fathered Methusaleh when he was only 65 months old.
I wonder if it isn't more likely than a 976-year lifespan, though...
Ah, but how important are those details compared to the message that The Lord made us, The Lord is God, and the Lord God is one?
It was found, that after the Deluge, or Flood, people started to live considerably shorter. Here is an article, that explains why:
http://www.examiner.com/article/global-flood-and-cancer (http://www.examiner.com/article/global-flood-and-cancer)
In short, before the Flood Earth had a kind of atmospheric water layer, or high temperature water vapor due to radiation, or some say could be ice, on higher altitude? Anyway, this provided shielding from ionizing radiation from the Sun. Now we cannot escape this, unless maybe at the bottom of the ocean.
First, let me make clear that I don't have the science education that most of you here seem to have, and beyond biology, I don't share the interest. So I may not know much about what I'm going to address.
Sure, I can accept that a dramatic difference in radiation could affect longevity. Maybe a sunspot storm could even damage genes and shorten lifespans ever after. I'm sure people could live longer, healthier lives if there were no cancer...at least in my family.
But I'm not sure I accept this premise from your link-
1Ionizing radiation affected the earth after the Global Flood, but not before. As Brown discusses elsewhere, every radioactive element in the earth's crust formed during the Global Flood event. Magnitude-10-to-12 earthquakes deformed the quartz in the earth's crust. This generated megavolt electric potentials. These sufficed to turn large amounts of heavy elements into plasma. The plasma fused and formed super-heavy elements. These then split or cluster-decayed to form uranium, thorium, and the other heavier-than-lead elements. All this produced background radiation human beings had never before known.
I don't think new elements are formed at low, life sustaining temperatures. Is cold fusion a proven fact? I thought you naturally needed supernovae and such, or artificial nuclear reactions to create new atoms. All of the heavier than lead elements in the Earth's crust were created during or since the Great Flood? That sounds.... rather unlikely.
I didn't go to college, and even my high school education is outdated by today's standards. I could be wrong.
All rocks and minerals contain long-lived radioactive elements that were incorporated into Earth when the Solar System formed. These radioactive elements constitute independent clocks that allow geologists to determine the age of the rocks in which they occur.
The article referenced in Mart's post is from a creationist website. There isn't one shred of scientific validity to this nonsensical claim that there were no radioactive elements on Earth before Noah's flood.
It seems to me that in the Great Flood scenario, a lot of loose neutrons are required, not to mention protons.
This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
It's difficult to say that, though, as then you'd also have to cut down the rest of the stuff in that passage similarly, meaning that Enoch fathered Methusaleh when he was only 65 months old.
This is basically what Isaac Asimov suggested. In one of his essays he said that there could have been a mistranslation somewhere along the way, in which months became years, since 900 months is a respectable lifespan even now, although quite a few people in the West tend to live 5-10 years longer than that due to better nutrition and advanced medicine.
It's difficult to say that, though, as then you'd also have to cut down the rest of the stuff in that passage similarly, meaning that Enoch fathered Methusaleh when he was only 65 months old.
Oh, but in that case they perhaps mistranslated the amount of seasons instead of months? ;cute