[Tax-chick]

He dubbed it the Methuselah gene after the Biblical prophet who lived to 969.

Methuselah is not recorded as a prophet. The only Biblical facts concerning him are his father's name (Enoch), his son's name (Lamech), and his age.

Enoch is known as a prophet from ancient non-Biblical writings, and from a brief quote in the New Testament.

[Lester Moore]

Methuselah is not recorded as a prophet. The only Biblical facts concerning him are his father's name (Enoch), his son's name (Lamech), and his age.

Didn't Noah know Lamech, who of course knew his father Methuselah, who knew Adam?