Can someone give a scientific explanation on how Adam, Abraham lived more than 900 years?How is that possible?

Question

Please give a detailed answer with merit.

Your right guys Abraham is not on this list but check out this website: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/methusela_lived_how_long_.html Still a skeptic? Keep on answering. By the way I get intersting answers from this category. I know that in the spiritual category I get a lot of bible scripture references but I wanted people to answewr who are not so "biblical" per say. All answers are very interesting.

Your right guys Abraham is not on this list but check out this website: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/methusela_lived_how_long_.html Still a skeptic? Keep on answering. By the way I get interesting answers from this category. I know that in the spiritual category I get a lot of bible scripture references but I wanted people to answewr who are not so "biblical" per say. All answers are very interesting.

All eyes on: Lamictalfan ...Outstanding explanation of huamn aging! What better response than from a scientist like herself. I love any education that can bridge the gap between bioligy and biblical literalism! Great job Lemict!

All eyes on: Lamictalfan ...Outstanding explanation of human aging! What better response than from a scientist like herself. I love any education that can bridge the gap between biology and biblical literalism! Great job Lemictal!

Answer 1

they didn't. the longest life listed in the bible was Lazarus who loved between 6 and 700 years i think

Answer 2

Okay:
One theory of why we age has to do with sections of our chromosomes called "telomeres." These are long strands of a single repeated nucleotide base - T, or thymine. Why do we have this? Because the protein that helps synthesize a new DNA strand requires a template before it can start - that is, it needs to have some nucleotides in a row to attach to. The end result is that not ALL of the telomere can be replicated, since the DNA polymerase (the protein I mentioned above) can't copy the nucleotides that it's sitting on. SO, when all the telomeres run out, that means the important area of the DNA - the area with genes - can't all be replicated with every cell division. Since we are constantly replacing cells in our body, there will come a point when these cells don't have all the ingredients they used to. That's when we get older and stop functioning.
So, if the telomeres didn't get cut off, they could theoretically live a long longer, provided they had a healthy lifestyle. Scientists are toying with this idea currently, in trying to insert extra thymines in the telomere region, so that we have longer before the telomeres run out.

Answer 3

There is no scientific explanation for the length of time some of the Bible characters lived as long as they did. By the way, Abraham only lived 175 years not 900. Many of the events in the Bible must be accepted on faith. I cannot "scientifically" explain why my lifestyle changed when I asked Jesus to be Lord of my life but it happened. Hence the term, miracle - an inexplicable event.

Answer 4

Abraham did not live 900 years, he lived more like 120, which is uncommon but not unheard of.

Adam lived ~900 years because he did not die until he reached that age. People live until they die by an accident, murder or sickness. He was lucky, so no accidents. At first he was the only one around, then only his family was there, so he was not murdered (that did not help Able, I am afraid). He was healthy and took care of himself, and germs had not adapted to humans, so he did not die of sickness.

Alternately, the measure of a 'year' might have been different then, or a different word may have been mistranslated at some point, so he might not have lived that long after all. If instead of 900 years old he was 900 months old, he would only have been 75, which is perfectly reasonable.

Answer 5

This is a delicate question and if one wishes to take the Word as absolutely true, what I am about to say may amount to heresy.

My opinion is that many of the books in the Bible are allegorical rather than factual. For example, I don't believe that the Earth was created in six Earth Days. Perhaps it was created in six God Days - and who knows how many thousand years make one God Day?

The story of Adam and Eve itself I believe to be the story of childhood, an explanation of how we grow.

When we are children we are in Paradise. We make few decisions. We are free. We make friends, we lose friends, we name animals by our own logic.

When we outgrow childhood, things suddenly change.

We have to make decisions. Sexual, workwise, relationships, so many other things. We are no longer allowed to fall back on the excuse, "I'm just a kid".

We aren't kids any more and we are expected to live up to that responsibility. We are "cast out of Paradise".

In the light of that, the age of the people mentioned is, I think, more allegorical than factual. History, in fact, proves that we live longer than our ancestors did.

So what does it mean when we read that Methuselah, for example, lived nine hundred years?

Could it mean that he accumulated, in his lifespan, the knowledge that it would have taken the ordinary man 900 years to gather?

Is this a scientific explanation? Of course not. It's a logical explanation. It's bound to draw flak from both sides of the belief.

But it's the only explanation that makes sense to me.

Answer 6

Because with God all things are possible and said so and can beat you up and throw you into hell to be burned and tormented for all eternity if you don't believe it!

Scientifically? Alright, alright...

Back then, see, they didn't eat all this processed food like what we eat now and they didn't eat so much either. Now, long-living species, according to scientific studies, tend to use and consume little energy, so basically they must have taken a lot of naps and not eaten much so they could live as long as a giant redwood or other long-lived plant species. Anyhow, that also explains why they didn't get much done back then over all that time either. I mean, 900 years just to invent the wheel? Talk about taking it slow!

Answer 7

The Koran doesn't mention for how long did Abraham and Adam lived so where did you get this from?

Answer 8

First, what is your definition of a 'scientific explanation? Second, where did you get the idea that those two individuals lived that long? And third, why would it not be possible, since God is the author of life, he can extend it as he chooses. I think you may be thinking of Methuselah, not Adam.

Genesis 5:27 (King James Version)

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Answer 9

I don’t know if there’s a scientific explanation, but after the Great Flood, people started to live to no more than 120 years. I know it doesn’t’ answer your question but one at least can infer that before the flood, Earth’s composition may have been purer, for lack of a better word.

Answer 10

What kind of an answer do you think you're going to get, since you posted the question to Mythology/Folklore? Obviously, it was a biblical tall tale, guy. Humans only live about 100 years, on the outside. Don't you know that?