the enamel on human teeth is only designed to last 30-40 years. even with excellent dental hygiene (which wasn't the case back then), they'd completely lose their teeth well before their 510th birthday.
2007-11-13 03:43:33 · 17 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is this really bothering you? Perhaps you should check out the museum of natural history to find your answer.
2007-11-13 04:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is interesting that you say the enamel is designed. Maybe this designer designed the enamel to last longer back then.
How do you know they didn't have excellent dental hygiene? If they were only eating unprocessed foods and used certain tree barks then they may have optimum hygiene.
2007-11-13 11:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by Future Human 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dude... if their body was different from ours, so that it lasted 900 (not five hundred, read the Bible again) years, then why wouldn't their enamel be better?
One theory is that before the flood, the there was a layer of water above the atmosphere.. This would have caused a different climate, much larger life forms, and longer-living life forms. Notice that after the flood, lifespan quicky decreased.. From 900 years to 400 years to 120 or so in just 3 generations or so.. No one born AFTER the flood lived nearly as old as those born before the flood.
2007-11-13 11:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Um, neither can the body live to be 900 years old...today. The inference in the Bible was that our original design allowed us to live longer, before sin decayed our bodies, as well as the world we lived in.
2007-11-13 12:03:11 · answer #4 · answered by TWWK 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Apparently evolution has given the modern toothless individual the ability to gum their food. I know two folks who have no teeth and no dentures. They seem to do just fine -
2007-11-13 11:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's possible that humans were capable of producing a sufficient amount of vitamin C that extended their lives until God manipulated their genes to not produce this antioxidant, thus shortening the life span of humans.
2007-11-13 13:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by HumanBaby 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If I were a Creationist, I'd conjecture that foods like hummus and feta and soup and their predeccessors came about because they could be easily gummed.
2007-11-13 11:47:56 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They still would've ate with their mouths. Whether soup or gummed the food to paste. Come on get a real question. LOL
God Bless!
2007-11-13 11:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by xgarmstrong 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Think about the julian calendar and How much it has changed. maybe their 500 wasn't our 500.
2007-11-13 11:47:11 · answer #9 · answered by leeanndemon 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They certainly weren't eating meat with those gums.
2007-11-13 11:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋