Religion Of Peace & Love Does It Again....

[Van]

I already told you what the real lesson there is, and no, adults aren't really expected to tell that story any longer, not to other adults. That story is now rightly told by smiling adults to gullible, impressionable children.

Try telling a modern day, western educated adult a story of a primitive wooden ship filled with breeding pairs of all the animals of the world, and you'll likely (and rightly) be mocked.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Pre-flood, the Bible records that all people were living those long lives.


900 years old men

I know you don't know the answers, but I'll ask anyway. If people were living to be 900, were they, like, 200-yr-old adolescents? Did they just age slower, or were they old when they were in their 80s and just lived another 820 years? Were women in their reproductive years when they were in their teens thru mid-30s, or when they were a few centuries old? I know Sarah was supposedly 90 when Isaac was born, and this was after she was determined to have been barren, so it would appear they got old and just stayed old for several centuries. How did that work?

You didn't ask me, but to the extent the Bible deals with people who actually existed, here's my take on it.

As you're aware, much of our sense of time is based on astonomical phenomena. One day = one complete rotation of the Earth on its axis. One month = approximately one full lunar cycle. One year = approximately one complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun (with a leap year thrown day in every four years to offset the difference).

In ancient times, knowledge of astronomy was not what it is today. It's entirely possible that ancient people attached greater importance to the moon than to the sun, given its closer proximity to the earth. So one year in ancient times may have been what we consider a month today. In that case:

900 lunar years (months) / 12 months/solar year = 85 solar years.

Strictly an educated guess on my part, but it makes some sense.

[Smackie Chan]

It's entirely possible that ancient people attached greater importance to the moon than to the sun, given its closer proximity to the earth. So one year in ancient times may have been what we consider a month today.

I'd buy that, but I don't think the 'tarts of the world do. I think pop has said that a year then was the same as a year now, but I could be wrong. The same thing applies in a different direction when it comes to the first week mentioned in Genesis. Were the "days" when everything was allegedly created 24 hours long? I'm guessing they might've been a wee bit longer. But I wasn't there, so what do I know?