How about this woman, aged 122 years 164 days.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-person
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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-person
Greg Jennings
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Ok lol. How about one significantly older? I think you got my point. Somebody to make a 900 year old guy seem reasonable
6days
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You obviously don't understand genetics...or natural selection, or you wouldn't say such goofy things.Barbarian said:
God created man from the dust. He created woman from mans rib. He created the great sea creatures before land animals. He created everything in six days.Barbarian said:
You still don't get it. Populations adapt, but monkey's will always be monkey's. God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. Gen. 1:25Barbarian said:
As I learned... you don't understand genetics. Mutations destroy or alter the pre-existing genetic info. This can in rare ( 1 in several hundred thousand) have a beneficial outcome).Barbarian said:
My Bible says "So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind" Gen. 1:21Barbarian said:
Sucker fish were created on the 5th day that had an evenIng and morning. Humans were created in the image of God on day 6.Barbarian said:
Greg Jennings
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It's a hypothesis, which is nice. But there aren't any accounts outside of the Bible of anybody living anything close to 900 years. If Genesis said unicorns were real, would you automatically assume them to be even though no unicorn has ever been found?
So what are you doing recounting some of it? :chuckle:
No, perhaps not, but even so, if the Bible is to be believed in regards to the Fall of Man, then we should expect that ages would slowly get shorter and shorter over time because of corruption. If we were to graph the age of every person who's age is recorded in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we would see, immediately after the Fall, that the ages top out around 900-1000 years, with the first man, Adam, and then slowly those ages decreased, with Methuselah being the exception.
Having someone live to be 122 today is not the norm (though it's certainly becoming more likely, through advancements in medicine and technology.
To put it in a nutshell, shorter lifespans today but exceptionally long lifestyles in Genesis are consistent with what the bible teaches, that all of creation was corrupted and is suffering.
I'm not seeing your point...
Greg Jennings
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Do you consider a genealogy list of 900 year old people to be scientific?
Greg Jennings
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Ok cool, you made a theory in which people died younger and younger, in order to explain a 900 year old person.
You have yet to show any EVIDENCE of one. That's why 6000 year old Earth isn't science. It doesn't come FROM the evidence. The entire field of science once thought as you do: that the Earth was created as is by God in 7 days somewhere between 6-10,000 years ago. Then over the last 400 years, that changed: now all of science is overwhelmingly convinced of a 4.5 billion year old planet
Tell me, why would gathering more and more evidence over centuries lead to the right conclusion being dropped in favor of an incorrect one?
Scientific?
It exists. It can be tested scientifically.
You really need to improve your use of terminology if you want to claim expertise in science communication.
Greg Jennings
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The same general way you test any other physical reality.
Greg Jennings
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I will look
There is no test here. There is a detailed hypothesis offered, but it's completely untested and makes many assumptions.
How do you test a genealogy list?
That link wasn't for you.
I don't know. :idunno:
How do you test other documents?
You assume they are true and test the consequences of that assumption against facts and logic.
Greg Jennings
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You assume they are true?
No. You don't. We don't assume every manuscript is factual or non-fiction
That's right.
Nobody said you did. :idunno:
This whole logic thing is a bit beyond you, isn't it?
If you want to examine something from a text (such as a geneology), but there's no direct way to test it, the next best thing is to look at the text as a whole, and to test to see if what it says is true. For example, lets say you have a history book, and it tells about Joan of Arc, but you have no body to examine, you look at what she did, and then you look at examples from history, and see if they line up with what the text says.
Basically, see if it lines up with reality.
So in the case of the Bible, we look at what it says as a whole, for example, it says that egypt fell and that a semitic people left around that time, and we see that (per the Ipuwer Papyrus) this very similar to what we see in reality, and another example are cities, coinage, etc.
Taken as a whole, the Bible has been largely proven correct, at least as far as what can be proven scientifically/archaeologically, etc.
6days
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I asked if you were a Christian and wanted a Biblical answer. Your reply was 'dodge'. Why?Greg Jennings said:
So... from a science standpoint, it is possible people could live 1000 years according to secular scientists. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblo...ars-old-is-alive-today-weekend-feature-1.html
Did some humans live 900+ years before genetic load started decreasing lifespans? You betcha! God's Word confirms it.