How could ancient man lived to be in the 100's?

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Re: How could ancient man lived to be in the 100's?

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Lonewolf wrote:
Jac3510 wrote:Sure, if there were any reason to believe that beings are supposed to be bigger than they are. I don't know of any reason that is the case, though. In that case, the size of humans now would be considered a defect, which in theory could be the case. But what evidence does anyone have to suggest that humans ought to be larger than they are?

I was reading from The City of God by Saint Augustine, and apparently he as well as others in his times believed that in some past era (pre-flood), that man did indeed was of a larger size, so I was just wondering and asking, that's all.

When was The City of God written by Saint Augustine?
This proves contrary to what young earth creationists say about the Gap theory that no one believed in the Gap theory before Thomas Chalmers who came up with the Gap theory in 1814 as a way of blending geology with the bible is wrong.Wikipedia is wrong too about Rev Thomas Chalmers.The Gap theory has been in the church along time,long before evolution became so popular.
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Re: How could ancient man lived to be in the 100's?

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abelcainsbrother wrote:
Lonewolf wrote:
Jac3510 wrote:Sure, if there were any reason to believe that beings are supposed to be bigger than they are. I don't know of any reason that is the case, though. In that case, the size of humans now would be considered a defect, which in theory could be the case. But what evidence does anyone have to suggest that humans ought to be larger than they are?

I was reading from The City of God by Saint Augustine, and apparently he as well as others in his times believed that in some past era (pre-flood), that man did indeed was of a larger size, so I was just wondering and asking, that's all.

When was The City of God written by Saint Augustine?
This proves contrary to what young earth creationists say about the Gap theory that no one believed in the Gap theory before Thomas Chalmers who came up with the Gap theory in 1814 as a way of blending geology with the bible is wrong.Wikipedia is wrong too about Rev Thomas Chalmers.The Gap theory has been in the church along time,long before evolution became so popular.
There were a lot of very mistaken ideas in 1814. They still thought there might be
a great undiscovered southern continent. They thought malaria was caused by bad air.

Gap "theory' and the 'flood" ceased to find believers among the educated a long time ago, along with astrology and alchemy.
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Re: How could ancient man lived to be in the 100's?

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abelcainsbrother wrote:
Lonewolf wrote:
Jac3510 wrote:Sure, if there were any reason to believe that beings are supposed to be bigger than they are. I don't know of any reason that is the case, though. In that case, the size of humans now would be considered a defect, which in theory could be the case. But what evidence does anyone have to suggest that humans ought to be larger than they are?

I was reading from The City of God by Saint Augustine, and apparently he as well as others in his times believed that in some past era (pre-flood), that man did indeed was of a larger size, so I was just wondering and asking, that's all.

When was The City of God written by Saint Augustine?
This proves contrary to what young earth creationists say about the Gap theory that no one believed in the Gap theory before Thomas Chalmers who came up with the Gap theory in 1814 as a way of blending geology with the bible is wrong.Wikipedia is wrong too about Rev Thomas Chalmers.The Gap theory has been in the church along time,long before evolution became so popular.
What are you talking about? What does Augustine have to do with the Gap Theory? Do you not know that he believed in an instanteous creation that was metaphorically described as a six day event? There's less than a gap of any kind. Everyone was created complete as Gen 1 describes it in a single instant for him. And beyond that, I don't know whether or not Augustine thought that people were physiclaly larger before the flood, but even if he thought they did, what would that have anything to do with, well, anything?
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And that, brothers and sisters, is the kind of foolishness you get people who insist on denying biblical theism. A good illustration of any as the length people will go to avoid acknowledging basic truths.
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