RE: It's Always Sunny - evolution versus Christianity
February 22, 2016 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2016 at 4:32 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(February 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Huggy, the fact is we live longer now than any generation that existed before us. Back in the Roman empire you could expect to live 25 to 30 years, unless you were lucky enough to be rich and survive infancy (child mortality befor 5 was, at best 50/50). And all the evidence from arcaeology from before then suggests you were ancient by 40. There is no way that in 4000 bce or whenever people lived to be 900, we'd have found evidence.
Let me stop you here.
what you are talking about is the AVERAGE life expectancy.
If we go by your numbers of the child mortality rate being 50% before the age of 5, and say the other 50% lived to be 70; that would be an AVERAGE life expectancy of about 37 years.
So no, you were not ancient by 40 it's just that the high child mortality rates bring down the average, got it?
