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There is scant evidence for very old people in the archaeological record, but the Bible claims people once lived for centuries. Is this a major contradiction? Not really. First, we would not know what to look for. Second, just because a person can get old does not mean they will. Third, and this is the focus of this episode, population modeling shows that short-lived people that are the maximum number of generations removed from Noah will quickly dominate. This is a recipe for rapidly collapsing lifespans. Long-lived people would have been quite rare in the early post-Flood world.
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There is scant evidence for very old people in the archaeological record, but the Bible claims people once lived for centuries. Is this a major contradiction? Not really. First, we would not know what to look for. Second, just because a person can get old does not mean they will. Third, and this is the focus of this episode, population modeling shows that short-lived people that are the maximum number of generations removed from Noah will quickly dominate. This is a recipe for rapidly collapsing lifespans. Long-lived people would have been quite rare in the early post-Flood world.
Show notes can be found at biblicalgenetics.com/where-are-the-skeletons
Support for Biblical Genetics comes from people like you!
One time: buymeacoffee.com/BibGenetics
Monthly: Patreon.com/BiblicalGenetics
