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If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years? Is this a myth or does it mean something else?
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Hello Dunban! I take it literally. When did human lifespans begin to decline? It was right after the Flood, when all of subsequent humanity would be descended from a single man (Noah) and this three sons. So whatever genetic flaw(s) Noah had would be passed on to his sons and then carried by the entire human race.If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years? Is this a myth or does it mean something else?
Hello Dunban! I take it literally. When did human lifespans begin to decline? It was right after the Flood, when all of subsequent humanity would be descended from a single man (Noah) and this three sons. So whatever genetic flaw(s) Noah had would be passed on to his sons and then carried by the entire human race.
Genesis 10 says that his sons were the first to have reduced lifespans. In only a handful of generations their lives were limited to about as long as ours. There have been various explanations why (vapor canopy, etc.), but I lean toward the genetic one.
Before the flood, there was a canopy of ice above the earth.
This canopy enclosed vapour in the air and shielded men from the sun.
Without the sun and plenty of hydration, man did not age, but grew.
If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years? Is this a myth or does it mean something else?
If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years? Is this a myth or does it mean something else?
Abraham lived, I think, 170+ years which I find somewhat strange.
What type of flaw do you suppose Noah had?
Barring accidental death, one-celled organisms are potentially ‘immortal’. A bacterial cell reproduces by dividing into two where there was one, those two then become four, and so on. Why then do multi-celled organisms die? Individual human cells in tissue culture divide some 50 times and then stop -some sort of pre-programmed genetic limit is reached. Human tumour cells, on the other hand, can be propagated indefinitely by division -the DNA mechanism for preprogrammed cessation of division appears to be lacking or damaged in such cancer cells.
In multicellular organisms, once damaged and worn cells can no longer replace themselves, death is only a matter of time as the function of whole organ systems deteriorates. So even without accidents or disease, there is a programmed ‘upper limit’ on our age, which appears to be 120 years or so as previously stated.
I suggest that our ancestors simply possessed genes for greater longevity which caused this ‘genetic limit’ to human ages to be set at a higher level in the past.
Suggestive evidence in support of this is the fact that in some other organisms (for example, fruitflies), it has been shown that changes in average lifespans can be bred into or out of populations. Most of us also know of individual family lines in which many successive generations all seem to live to very ripe old ages, with apparently delayed senescence relative to the norm. Reports of entire populations (for example, the Hunzas) living to 100+ far more frequently than is the case in our society (in spite of indulgence in tobacco and alcohol) has caused many to hunt for their dietary secrets. However, genetics would seem to provide an obvious answer.
If this suggestion has merit as the major (if not the sole) cause of greater pre-Flood ages, then the obvious question is how some of these longevity genes were lost. The human population went through a severe genetic bottleneck at the time of the Flood—only eight individuals. The phenomenon of ‘genetic drift’ is well-known to be able to account for ‘random’ selectively neutral changes in gene frequencies (including the loss or ‘extinction’ of genes from a population) which may be quite rapid. Also, loss of genes is far more likely in a small population.
Science has no way of knowing. They only assume that the life span was the same then as it is now by looking at the skeletons they have found. They do say there is a difference when man settled down into cities and began to be a food producer. For one thing there was more disease. I actually did a study once on the cause of death for any pre Adam skeletons they have found. Everyone one of them that I studied were murdered. They found a arrow head in them or their skull was smashed. It was not until after Adam that people began to die from "natural" causes. For example: "tests have shown that Cheddar Man suffered a violent death at the age of about 23 in 7150 B.C" Was Cheddar man really only 23? Or did he just appear to be 23 by today's standards.If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years?
I don't know exactly why our lifespans seem so fixed.
If evolution is true, then could someone explain why scripture says Adam and his progeny lived for over 900 years? Is this a myth or does it mean something else?
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