Lifespan 1000 years to 80?

[TubbyTubby]

What? So Nahor was dead by the age of 12 (147) yet had 8 kids!

He could have easily had eight wives.

There is on record today of a 5 y/o having a child.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

If that means in the 48th year (600×12.36 lunar) what does "second month" mean?

Why is a year a month but the word month is used in the context of days?

I didn't write the damn thing. [emoji14] Mayhaps it was just the custom in those days, differentiating age versus day to day times. It makes much more sense that Methuselah was 80 vs. 969.

Or mayhaps it was common practice to make up stories with people living to a 1000 years so as to lend them more importance to the audience.

That would make more sense than the pathetic efforts I'm seeing here to bend the definitions of years and months so as to shift the story characters into more realistic human lifespans.