[js1138]

It is the change and breakdown of our DNA that causes aging and many types of disease.

And yet our lifespan of threescore and ten has remained pretty constant over thousands of years of recorded history.

And humans have only 300 generations in 6000 years, whereas bacteria have undergone upwards of 10 million replications. Bacteria have a genome almost as complex as ours. Why hasn't it deteriorated?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Because the life of a bacteria can be measured in days. We live for decades, continually absorbing DNA damaging cosmic and UV rays. Over the centuries our lifespan has steadily decreased as the DNA of the next generation gets less stable. Pre-flood people lived for hundreds of years because there the cosmic and UV rays were blocked.

There are dozens of examples of species today that suggest that at one time they were MUCH larger. For example, there are skeletons of alligators that were 50 feet long. Today we know that an alligator never stops growing.

There is no fossil whatsoever that suggests that a platypus was ever anything except a platypus, but fossils show that the platypus was actually much larger thousands of years ago.

Same with ferns and trees and sharks and turtles and so on.

Even the bible is consistent on this matter. Noah lived 950 years, his sons about 600 years, his grandsons 438 years, their sons 433 years, their sons 464 years, their sons 239, their sons 239, their sons 230, their sons 148, and it goes on down.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. Who is to say that the lifespan of a bacteria wasn't several weeks at one time?