The Bible* (I am not referencing it for it's religious content, just historical.) has many accounts of humans living far in excess of 100+ years old.
Is there any possible scientific explanation for people from 2000~ BC having lifespans 150+ years?
My current opinion is just that people kept shitty/unreliable records in the past... (No one was handing out birth certificates) And nobody ACTUALLY lived that long.
Aside from that easy to believe explanation, certainly there has to be some physical limitations to aging, that humans in the past could not have possibly overcome, right?
How could Methuselah's telomeres have lasted 900 years??!? That has to be bullshit.
I just did rough math on it.
My CONSERVATIVE estimate shows that unless Methuselah had some insane DNA structure mutation, he would have blown through ALL of his telomeres after just 650 years. That man, at most conservative numbers, would have gone 5000 base pairs deep into the parts of his DNA that mattered, for the last 250~ years of his life.
Anyone have any other explanations that are "technically" possible to explain those biblical lifespans?
Assuming that MAYBE Abraham DID live 175 years. That's easier to believe than Methuselah's 900 at least.
Is there any possible scientific explanation for people from 2000~ BC having lifespans 150+ years?
My current opinion is just that people kept shitty/unreliable records in the past... (No one was handing out birth certificates) And nobody ACTUALLY lived that long.
Aside from that easy to believe explanation, certainly there has to be some physical limitations to aging, that humans in the past could not have possibly overcome, right?
How could Methuselah's telomeres have lasted 900 years??!? That has to be bullshit.
I just did rough math on it.
My CONSERVATIVE estimate shows that unless Methuselah had some insane DNA structure mutation, he would have blown through ALL of his telomeres after just 650 years. That man, at most conservative numbers, would have gone 5000 base pairs deep into the parts of his DNA that mattered, for the last 250~ years of his life.
Anyone have any other explanations that are "technically" possible to explain those biblical lifespans?
Assuming that MAYBE Abraham DID live 175 years. That's easier to believe than Methuselah's 900 at least.
