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To: pby
Do you have evidence that Adam did not live that long, Professor?

Yes. I do. If we take age-specific death rates for the United States in the year 2000 after age 35, they fit very nicely to a function R = 6.62 exp(0.0842 a), where a is the age. This function gives an absolute life-span of 114 years, which agrees nicely with the oldest verifable age for an American, at 115 years. People in other countries have lived a little longer. But nobody, anywhere has been dcoumented to live past 129.

So in a modern Western country, people live to a maximum of 115. Death rates rise exponentially with age, and so it is statistically impossible for a person to live to 200, let alone to 930.

746 posted on 04/28/2006 2:07:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
How are we able to conclude that age-specific death rates for the United States in the year 2000 after age 35 are the same for those living in the middle east several thousands of years ago?

Death rates rise exponentially with age...sure. How do we know that the current exponential rate rise is the same as the rate rise in Adam's day?

Do you have any evidence that they are the same...or are you making an assumption?

748 posted on 04/28/2006 2:16:30 PM PDT by pby
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