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Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: "Kermit"
Date: 30 Jul 2004 02:02:47 PM
Object: Re: Biblical Lifespans
Gremlin <Gr3mlin@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns95358E6725468Test@216.168.3.44>...

n the Jewish old testament, before the flood men lived for 900 years or
more. Then when demons began spreading their seed among the humans, and
corrupting the blood line... god wiped out almost everyone. Except for one
man, Noah, who he made a covenant with. He saved Noah and set down some
new guidelines for men to follow.

He said humans could now eat meat, but
never should they drink any blood because blood contained the life of the
flesh. Before this everyone was supposedly a vegetarian. He also again
commanded that men should never kill other men. God then promised never to
destroy the earth in such a way again...

After the flood in the bible, the
longest anyone lived was 120 years. Leaving us to wonder why god did not
explain this dramatic change. Could it be that eating meat causes us to
die early? Maybe not... what would happen anyone if we drank the life of
the flesh, the blood of animals? He clearly says that we will be made to
die if we kill other men, but that does not explain the short lifespan
because no one murders anyone for quite some time after the flood in the
bible.

Perhaps there was some sort of dramatic climate change in the
earths atmosphere that is causing us all to die early. This is what many
Christians believe. That ultraviolet light is leading to are unusually
short lifespans. Before the flood the world was much darker in certain
forms of radiation... and now we don't have the appropriate shielding or
perhaps there is more radiation coming to earth as well from some source
in space...

At any rate there has been very little experimentation done in
keeping advanced animals like mice or rats in radiation free environments
throughout there entire lives. Actually we don't have the technology to
make a room that is completely radiation free, but perhaps if we
experimented shielding life with what we can we might see an increase in
their lifespans to some degree....

We even have more radiation in the
world right now than they did a few hundred years ago.. We have the power
grid stretching across the entire globe, running into almost every house...
could this be causing problems too? If we could discover exactly why
people are dying faster than they did in the old testament, then maybe we
could live much longer too. What do you think? Any ideas why we are dying
faster? If I can come up with some good hypothesis I am going to run some
experiments myself, since no one else seems to be doing it.

Even if this fantasy of yours had anything to do with reality, we live
longer than folks did 200 years ago (on the average). Obviously
20th-21st century technology would not be the culprit.
The evidence indicates that there was no global flood.
Humans have always eaten meat.
There are no demons.
People have never lived for centuries, although they might soon, with
near-future medicine.
The Masaai have trditionally drunk the blood of their cattle as a
major source of calories, and they do just fine.
We humans are not descended from a family of 8, less than 6000 years
ago.
Kermit
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