Researchers have been reviewing mortality records and have concluded that there is an upper limit to how long we can expect to live. They claim the ceiling is around 115 years for most of us, but leave out the possibility of the extremely rare exception who might make it to 125.
The researchers claim that our own genetic make up puts an upper limit to how long we should expect to live. Other demographic experts have called the study a “dismal travesty” in a line of past studies that have all been proven wrong.
We won’t extend our lives beyond that limit unless we manipulate our own gene code.
I fear that Global Warming will keep me from achieving my full genetic-approved lifespan.
God put the time limit on man when He told Noah after the flood that the days of man would be numbered 120 years.
Noah was 950 years old when he died. Prior to the flood, the firmament had some kind of effect on prolonging the life span, according to many biblical scholars.
Once again science “proving” what God already told us.
Unruly refugee and Menotu beat me to it. Amazing how much research money can be spent just proving what we already know if we would just read the Bible
I’m not buying it.
Just look at Hillary.
SHE CAN’T DIE!
Unruly, I was just going to start to search Genesis for where the place was that God declared that man will only live to 120 years. I think he meant it as a guide to how long we will live. I say that because I feel that I’ve live many more decades in the last 8 years that I should be well past 120 years old by now!
Claudia, that should have read “He told Noah that the days of man would be numbered 120 years.”
I think this verse occurred right before the flood. I had the “that” in the wrong place.
We’ll have a lot more years to live after Trump is elected. I feel it too.
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Another view is that the 120 years was how long man had to repent before the Flood came.
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
Psalm 90:10 (KJV)
70 or 80 years, seems about right.
Remember though, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
I want to live as long as God will allow me to live. I’m 63 now and in reasonably good health and if I can live into my 80’s and 90’s like my parents and still be all there I’ll take it. My 98 year old Uncle is an exception that gives hope to all of us in my family, the guy just won’t quit and will probably live to be 100+ in good health and loving life for every extra day he’s given. And besides I still want to be able to drive and be able to take care of myself at that age as well and to be as independent as possible.
It’s morning and I’m awake
My soul’s been chosen not to take
I feel like I’ve been asleep for years
Rolling out of bed
And then I see the colors
Pressing up on my eyes
And I want to live until I die
It’s evening and I’m alive
No bruises or abrasions outside
No bones protruding through my skin
What a wonderful way for the day to end
And then I see the colors
Pressing up on my eyes
And I want to live until I die
(Ass Ponys, “Live Until I Die”, from the album “The Known Universe”, 1995)
If I reach 100 just shoot me.
“Remember though, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.”
Scientifically proven, too!
Grool, I’ve heard that view too, and it is logical. But the lifespan did decrease considerably after the flood, so I go with the other view.
Methuselah died just days before the flood at the age of 969. Adam, who lived 930 years, was still alive when Methuselah was born.
Carl Baugh explains it pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFiDYDfbGjY
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U R, I think it’s possible both views are correct. At least they don’t necessarily contradict one another. We definitely agree that life spans dropped dramatically and rapidly after the flood reset the entire geosphere. And here we are, camped out in flesh, awaiting the restitution and restoration of all things.
Obviously Noah is to blame for the current financial mess that Social Security is in.