(August 22, 2015 at 7:32 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote:(August 22, 2015 at 7:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: That depends on how years are defined in the relevant texts, I suppose.
You're sort of dodging that. You said that they lived for a really long time back then, soooo one would have to assume that was much longer than we are living today. It sounds a lot like that you believe that Shem died at 600 and Methuselah died at the age of 969.
If you believed that a year wasn't measured like it was today, then you probably wouldn't have said that, so I have to assume that you do believe that people lived to a few hundred + years old, when ALL evidence heavily contradicts that.
I have no problem with the idea that they did live to extraordinary age. However, I am also aware that it's quite possible that some method of dating was used which is different from our own.
But what evidence do you have which indicates that Methuselah did not live to be 969 of our years?
