(March 23, 2014 at 2:33 pm)tor Wrote: In almost every debate hitchens talked how shitty god is because humans didn't live longer than 25 years and had horrible teeth. After which he started talking about how jesus appeared in desert and not in china.
If he said that humans on average didn't live longer than around 25 that may be true. A shockingly large number of children died before their 5th birthday.
So if you took a study from two brothers, one that died at age 1 and the other that died at age 89, you'd have an average lifespan of 45 years.
Certainly our midlife mortality has dropped because of better medical care, but old people have always been around.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.