Never thought of it this way.
But it makes sense....the extremes of temperature in the summer and the low temps of winter do take a toll on some people.
I am one who does not like it to go above 80 degrees in the summer. Sadly that hasn’t been the case in Oregon this year. (89 or 90 today)
In the book I mentioned in an earlier post, he posits that before the great flood the trade winds moved north to south rather than east to west. He makes the argument that the temerature variation from equator to pole was no more than a few degrees Fahrenheit.
It does explain a few things. Forests in the Sahara, the type of animal carcassas found at extreme northern locations, etc.
Most of what Kent Hovind said made sense to me. He got into a lot of strange conspiracy stuff though. I would say, “If this stuff was true, they wouldn’t let him say it.” Then the government put him in prison on trumped up tax evasion charges. Well, what do I do with that?
You know what would be great about the longevity issue? The wisdom the experience, the stories, and all the other things you could learn from your elders! That's a lot of history in one lifetime...
Only thing is, it would hurt that much more when it was finally their time to pass... Saying goodbye to them: contemporaries for centuries, then they're gone.