Aron-Ra
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The reason people were given those ridiculous ages in the Bible, and other mid-eastern literature much older than that, is because the most ancient works of Semitic origin were writ before the Arabic invention of the number, zero. Until then, the middle eastern cultures used a base-sixty numeric system. It is a sliding scale when translated into base ten, but properly transcrined, the ages reduce to normal life spans. Otherwise, the oldest record known to exist lists the kingdoms of Mesopotamia in a continuous succession over a period of about a quarter million years, with the earliest kings ruling for an average of thirty thousand years each!I'm not talking about how much science one knows, I'm talking about IQ:
It is my contention that the further back one goes, the higher the average IQ rises --- especially among the Jews, who, IMO, are the most intelligent people on earth.
- mental age / chronological age x 100
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