Do new science discoveries in aging confirm the bible once again?

Question

In the old testament you read about how people at one point lived as long as 900 and 500 years old and gradually their lifespans got shorter and shorter. People thought this alone made the bible sound ridiculous.

But scientist say they don't know why we even age and new research with animals and bugs shows that when a gene or two is changed they have been able to make them live trice and three times as long. So this whole idea seems very possible.

Most people say that science has sent the bible back to the stone age but it seems to me that it is always playing catchup to what already is in the bible.

Answer 1

The Bible does NOT need anyone or anything to 'confirm' it.



The Bible does not go into any scientific details, but when it does mention anything to do with science, it is always correct.

Answer 2

While I would doubt that people actually lived that long, let me help you out on some stuff here.



1. People in Genesis supposedly lived a very long time and if you believe that time was measured in years it seems likely the sexual maturity of people was at a much later time than people today.



2. From Adam onward, with a few outliers, people died earlier in life than their parents. The most notable jumps are Methuselah (an outlier) to his son Lamech (969 to 777). But then Noah, Lamech's son, was also an outlier 950.



3. Genesis 6:3 explicitly states that God will number the days of man to 120 years. Noah, lived before and after this statement to the age previously stated. However, Shem, Noah's son, lived to be 600. After this time his next three descendants lived into their 400s. Then Peleg is where you really start to see change, 209 when he died, and his two descendants lived similar lifespans. Nahor, however, is the first one that the 120 rule applies to, lived 119 years, dying 81 years younger than his father.



If I were a science fiction writer I would say that this is evidence that God was messing with the genetic code of his test subjects. However, this to me is evidence that the god of the Bible is not really as all powerful and wise as some would make out. If you can actually live for 900 years, you would probably take better care of things and do long term planning.



3. Scientists do and don't know why we age. Our cells will, in the course of a lifetime, make many copies. Over time errors will occur and eventually occur with increasing frequency. The result is aging. What scientists don't know is why those errors occur.



4. There is a way to live double your lifespan but the process involves eating half as much as you do, nearly starving yourself.



5. If you say that science is playing catch up to the Bible you may also want to consider Buddhist though, which science is also confirming in some cases. It was also on the part of Medieval churches that scientific thought was banned and declared heresy for several centuries. During which time Europe suffered great setbacks and road blocks to advancing the quality of life and improving their medicine. Operations like brain surgery (albeit mild forms) were preformed many centuries ago (I believe in Greek, Roman, Arabic, and Oriental cultures) but the sophistication didn't even start to develop until at least the 1800s? Why is that? Because people thought prayer and no action would save them.

Answer 3

Why do all Christians only accept science when it agrees with them and deny it when it argues?



You all forget evolution. Bible says didnt happen, Science said DID happen. Science also states any physical and some mental attributes of any animal is outlined in DNA. Has since DNA was first found under an electron microscope.



Secondly our lifespan is increasing not decreasing. What God make a mistake and decide to backpeddal a bit?



Incidently Christmas comming is based on a Pagan end of year ritual and not the actual birth of christ. Christianity has had to make many numerous alterations slowly in what it dictates to its followers. Fast change can lead to insecurity in the faith and thus leading to lost souls.



The scientific method states as fact (rather ironically) that nothing is KNOWN to science and everything can be disproven. As a result science is not ment to be set in stone allowing for rapid changes in ideology.



Dont eat the fruit and throw away the core. If you want to convince us you need to swallow the hard bits with the sweet bits. Evalution appears to be fact, it takes longer then a few thousand years to exact a change of that magnitude to any living creatures genetic structure by natural means.



Bible is STILL trying to catch up... sorry...

Answer 4

So what you are saying is that some mystical genetic engineering took place to shorten human life around 3,000 years ago. But only to people in some parts of Judea, because there are records of people living to just 40 then and earlier in Egypt. And you are also saying that the ages people are reported to live to in the bible do not add up to the passage of time reported because...no, lost on that one. Not sure how someone can live longer than the time that passes, as the bible reports.



Or could it just be that the bible is a load of arrant nonsense.



Yes, thats much more likely. Occams Razor to the rescue again.

Answer 5

Actually there is no comformation that people in biblical times lived that old. Skeletons found from those times show people did not live even close to the ages they do now. The study of human biology can let a forensic scientist know just old someone is from the bones and teeth. You do find the occasional individual that made it to their 70's but evidence just does not confirm people ever lived to those ages.

Answer 6

whether I supply you your interpretation of the verse, you ought to bear in mind the Egyptians had an emense information of astronomy as much as 1500 years till now the 1st books of the previous testomony have been written. there's a lot of information exhibiting the Bible barrowed from the two Egytian and Greek predecessors (who have been additionally knowledgable astronomers of the time). that for the period of strategies, it does not be unusual for a number of their information to finally end up in the Bible long after the fact. in case you save all of it in context, the Bible shows the earth is flat and on the middle of the universe, which belies your incontrovertible fact that it consists of a few form of scientific perception. Psalm ninety 3:a million: “Thou hast fastened the earth immovable and employer ...” Psalm ninety six:10: “He has fastened the earth employer, immovable ...” Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its beginning place so as that it never might nicely be shaken.” Isaiah 11:12 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the international locations, and shall collect the outcasts of Israel, and collect jointly the dispersed of Judah from the 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH. (KJV) Is. forty:22 "that's he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to stay in..." a circle, of path, is two dimensional. IOW- flat. EDIT- you effective make some ridiculous parallels. i could recomend checking some time lines additionally. while "the flood" befell has no longer something to do with it. The question rides on while the Bible verse in question became written. And Mount Everest became no longer created by utilising a flood. Whoever gave you that concept became blowing smoke. Sry. Everest became shaped over 60 million years in the past (approximately fifty 9,994,000 years till now the Biblical flood) by utilising huge techtonic pass. no longer flood water. the fact that we come across fossilized remains of ocean creatures on mountain tops around the planet merely bypass to teach this. i do no longer comprehend what you're attempting to get at with the crusing diatribe. diverse cultures have sailed the oceans because of the fact the break of day of recorded historic previous and somewhat in all probability long till now. How does this help your fact in any way?

Answer 7

I think every time I watch a science show like I did last night .....which claims they are going to "prove" there was a big bang theory and all they do is preach there was one but no scientific proof at all......it proves to me the bible is real and true even more and that man just chooses to be "willfully ignorant" and goes to great lengths to do just that.

Answer 8

But we do know more and more about the genetics of aging. And we do know that there is no evidence of ancient people having longer life spans.



And we can research the history of genes by studying the long and short interspersed segments they contain. Again, no evidence that humans once had "genes" that support longevity.

Answer 9

Yep the Bible has spoken but people choose to change it and pick and choose trhow it around and do all sorts of rubbish about it!

Answer 10

Science does in fact prove the Bible, " There is nothing new under the sun "

Answer 11

The earliest humans lived longer because the genetic strain of the immortal elohim was still strong in them. We are no longer as pure. However, once geneticists are able to identify or synthesize the immortality gene, we'll be getting somewhere.

Answer 12

What is amazing is that Adam was supposed to have died after eating of the forbidden fruit tree... and he got to live almost 1,000 years..!!!



I know he died "spiritually"...!!! and there was no Jesus around for a second birth!

Answer 13

fine with me...im not keeping track of them...ive got a life