There is a point there where it's probably best I leave it at that. What I was going to answer would only upset you more.
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Hardly. The only response to the question I posed was 'God can do anything.' Sounds to me like your 'ammunition' is really nothing more than fairy dust.
There is a point there where it's probably best I leave it at that. What I was going to answer would only upset you more.
No matter how much you might try to squirm your way out of it, those words were spoken prior to the fall.
There is a point there where it's probably best I leave it at that. What I was going to answer would only upset you more.
"Anyway, Les made an error in calculation when he assumed God would have told Adam to be fruitful and multiply *before* his body had changed and would die."
Let's let that be a little mystery to figure out on your own. We tend to learn much better when we have to work for it.
OK, Biblical literalists insist that the lifespans of people shortly after the flood were significantly longer than today. From after the flood until the time of David, longevity in the Bible shows a decrease of age at death from 438 years (Arphaxad's time) to 70 years (David's time.) http://creation.com/temporal-changes-in-the-ageing-of-biblical-patriarchs
Now, anthropologists can use tooth wear as a method of determining someone's age at death to with about a 95% confidence level. http://var-and-evo.biol.uni.torun.pl/03_8.pdf
SO, if people lived a lot longer for 500 to 1000 years after the Flood, shouldn't that be apparent by their teeth? Why has this not been observed?
Correct.
Deuteronomy 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
God didn't create junk.
Let us know when they find the teeth of people who lived over 200 years and we can talk.
Might be waiting a while.
Besides teeth, there is wear and tear on joints.
OK, Biblical literalists insist that the lifespans of people shortly after the flood were significantly longer than today. From after the flood until the time of David, longevity in the Bible shows a decrease of age at death from 438 years (Arphaxad's time) to 70 years (David's time.) http://creation.com/temporal-changes-in-the-ageing-of-biblical-patriarchs
Now, anthropologists can use tooth wear as a method of determining someone's age at death to with about a 95% confidence level. http://var-and-evo.biol.uni.torun.pl/03_8.pdf
SO, if people lived a lot longer for 500 to 1000 years after the Flood, shouldn't that be apparent by their teeth? Why has this not been observed?
-_- their teeth would have rotted from overuse, since humans typically only have two sets (if you count 12 year molars and wisdom teeth as part of the adult set). Even with modern dental care, toothpaste, etc, and if the teeth of those past humans were twice as durable as our modern ones, they wouldn't last a 400+ year lifespan. Furthermore, people in the past tended to have more rough plant matter and even bones in their diets, which wears down teeth even faster. If one asserts that their teeth were durable enough to withstand those lifespans, then the wear on their teeth would not be reflective of their age.
So, specifically what conditions were different post-Flood to David that allowed their teeth and internal organs to last longer than today?
It has not been observed because it did not happen. Who knows how people measured time in ancient times? It could have been in months rather than years, if they were focussed on the moon rather than the sun, which would make 438 moons 46 years; that is possible.
"And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died." (Genesis 9.29)
Yep. That is English and you and I both know what is meant by it.
How do we know what the ancients meant by it? Assuming that it is the same as our meaning is rather foolish, to say the least. Numbers had symbolic meaning to the ancients, and Noah had neither birth nor death certificate.
Longevity claims are not uncommon among ancient legends. So far, forensic anthropology has not confirmed that humans once lived very long lives. To the contrary, ancient lives were quite short.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths#Ancient_extreme_longevity_claims
The ancient Hebrews had a word for month (Chodesh), and it wasn't the same word they used for year (Shanah).
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