Noah's Ark

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And people really believe people lived longer in those days. They didn't even have calendars until the Romans. I think they must have counted the full moons etc or seasons, there's no way they lived to be 180 or so at any time in our history. So 180 would probably equate to 50 years old

And isn't that one of the most telling things about faith, i.e. believing against all evidence. Even if it is based on an overt error, it will be believed, rationalized, and defended to the hilt. It's like when Bill Maher asks in Religulous "Suppose you had been taught Jack and the Beanstalk instead of Jonah and the Whale. You would be defending the one instead of the other." They will go to the grave believing Adam lived 900 years because that's how it was taught.

And the truth might be that they actually lived much FEWER years than us. Not that I actually believe that Noah or Adam existed but for the sake of argument others who may have actually existed in the Bible undoubtedly lived fewer years than modern humans.