Posted on 09/11/2005 2:28:14 PM PDT by billorites
I think it is possible and that the clues are all either within geneology or something of that nature.
That said, it is only natural for things to die. That is the process of renewal that life strives upon.
and I don't believe science as we know it today is up to the task either.
Boy! That Johnny McVain sure gets around.
If we can get everyone and everything to live forever, won't we run out of space? What will the turkey buzzards eat?
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I am placing my bets with God. When the River Of Life was sealed off and The Garden of Eden was lost to the Noahic Flood, we were doomed to a shorter life span. But God does promise eternal life via Jesus Christ.
Smallpox and polio are also quite natural. No thanks.
It takes 50 years to get a particle physicist up to speed these days. Such a pity for them to drop dead just when things are getting interesting.
Looks like Social Security is toast.
Aside from the utter lack of specifics, the telomere theory of aging is unproven, in fact, probably false.
Yeah, but technology might actually deliver.
You place your bets and I'll place mine. I'm cool with that.
It's an interesting point that the Biblical "three score and ten" is, first of all 'Biblical', meaning old and second, actually three score and ten or four score, i.e., an average of 75.
Even if we assume that the editors of the KJV made up Psalms 90:10 on the spot, the fact is that knowlegeable people in 1611 were comfortable with the idea that people died of old age at around 75 if something else didn't kill them first.
So what is it, exactly, that Gerontology has accomplished since then? (this isn't really a very serious point, but keep it in reserve in case you run into an especially insufferable Gerontologist.)
This is where the right will split up in 20+ years, but not until after we destroy militant Islamism.
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.
'Zactly what I was thinking. I'm going to live forever. Everyone else can too. But not because of a scientific breakthru.
susie
Dont you mean TREE of life?
Roadkill, same as now. No amount of genetic chicanery will save you from a speeding truck!
Good point. That chipmunk with it's legs in the air at the end of my block certainly didn't look geriatric!
Not in your lifetime.
There's aging, and then there's everything else that kills you!
It's hard enough keeping up one's appearance at 40 or 50 or more. Who wants to be fighting crow's feet at 450?
Give me 99 good years, death in my sleep and a free pass at the pearly gates.
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