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Why Did God Reduce Human Lifespan from 969 to 70 Years_ _ The Answer Is in Genesis 6 · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Why did humans live so long before the flood? Adam
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  Speaker 1: lived 930 years. Seth lived 912. Methuselah lived 969. This
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  Speaker 1: is not just one of the most difficult questions in
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  Speaker 1: the entire Bible. It is a biological impossibility. How did
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  Speaker 1: a human heart beat for nine centuries without giving out? Today,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to answer it. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: forensically examine the genetics, the ancient atmosphere, and the exact
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  Speaker 1: catastrophic event that broke our biology forever. And what we
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  Speaker 1: find will permanently change the way you read the first
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  Speaker 1: nine chapters of your Bible. Before we can explain how
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  Speaker 1: a human being sustained life for nine centuries, we must
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  Speaker 1: first settle a more fundamental question. Did they actually do it?
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  Speaker 1: The moment most people encounter Genesis chapter 5, the first
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  Speaker 1: instinct is not wonder. It is suspicious. The assumption that
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  Speaker 1: something has been lost in translation, inflated in transmission, or
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated for cultural effect has followed these numbers for generations.
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  Speaker 1: And if we are going to build an honest case
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  Speaker 1: on this text, we cannot ignore that suspicion. We have
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  Speaker 1: to walk straight into it. The most common explanation offered
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  Speaker 1: by scholars and laypeople alike is what researchers call the
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  Speaker 1: Lunar Year Hypothesis. The argument runs as follows. Perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Hebrew writers were counting lunar months, not solar years.
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  Speaker 1: A lunar month is approximately 30 days. If the patriarchs
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  Speaker 1: were recording months rather than years, then a figure like
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  Speaker 1: 930 could simply represent a normal human lifespan counted in
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  Speaker 1: a different unit. It sounds reasonable on the surface. It
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of explanation that satisfies people who want
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  Speaker 1: to hold both the authority of scripture and the skepticism
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  Speaker 1: of modern intuition at the same time. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: that when you apply this hypothesis consistently to the text,
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  Speaker 1: it does not produce a workable world. It produces absurdity.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 5 tells us that Mahalalel became a father
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  Speaker 1: at 65 years of age. If those 65 years were
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  Speaker 1: actually 65 lunar months, Mahalalel fathered a child at approximately
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  Speaker 1: five years and four months old. Enoch, according to the
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  Speaker 1: same text, had a son at 65 years. Under the
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  Speaker 1: lunar hypothesis, Enoch became a father at five and a
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  Speaker 1: half years old. Methuselah had a child at 187 years.
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  Speaker 1: converted to lunar months, that places fatherhood at 15 years,
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  Speaker 1: which is biologically possible but entirely inconsistent with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the ancient world's understanding of adulthood and family formation.
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  Speaker 1: And Noah, who is described as building an ark and
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  Speaker 1: fathering three sons, supposedly completed all of this by the
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  Speaker 1: time he was 50 years old in actual human terms.
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  Speaker 1: The arithmetic does not hold. The moment you apply the
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  Speaker 1: lunar calendar theory to the full genealogical record of Genesis 5,
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  Speaker 1: the entire social fabric of the antediluvian world collapses into
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  Speaker 1: biological impossibility. The writers of Genesis were working with solar years,
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  Speaker 1: 365 day cycles, the same unit of time they use
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  Speaker 1: everywhere else in the text. The numbers in Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 1: 5 are not metaphors. They are not inflated poetic devices.
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  Speaker 1: They are a genealogical record, and they are meant to
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  Speaker 1: be read as one. But this is where an honest
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  Speaker 1: investigation must go further than the biblical text alone. Because
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  Speaker 1: if these lifespans are historical rather than symbolic, then we
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  Speaker 1: should expect to find some echo of them outside the
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  Speaker 1: walls of the Hebrew scriptures. And we do. The evidence
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  Speaker 1: arrives from an unexpected direction. carved into ancient clay and
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  Speaker 1: inked onto papyri thousands of years before modern archaeology knew
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  Speaker 1: what it had found. The Sumerian King List is one
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  Speaker 1: of the most remarkable documents in the ancient world. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a biblical artifact. It was not written by
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew scribes or preserved in a religious community. It is
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  Speaker 1: a Mesopotamian administrative record, written in Sumerian, and it catalogs
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  Speaker 1: the reigns of kings across two distinct historical periods, before
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  Speaker 1: a great flood and after it. The pre-flood entries on
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  Speaker 1: the Sumerian king list record individual reigns of staggering length,
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  Speaker 1: kings ruling for tens of thousands of years in some translations.
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  Speaker 1: The post-flood entries, by contrast, are dramatically shorter. The lifespans
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  Speaker 1: and rain lengths plummet after the flood event with the
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  Speaker 1: same structural pattern found in Genesis. Beyond Mesopotamia, the Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: Turin king list, a papyrus dating back to the Rameside period,
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  Speaker 1: reveals a nearly identical historical paradigm. It lists a mythical
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  Speaker 1: dynasty of gods and demigods who ruled Egypt for thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years before the arrival of human pharaohs, whose lifespans
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  Speaker 1: then drop to normal parameters. Similarly, the Babylonian historian Berossus,
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  Speaker 1: writing in the third century before Christ, recorded the history
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon, listing ten kings who ruled before the great deluge,
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  Speaker 1: claiming their reigns lasted for hundreds of thousands of years.
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  Speaker 1: While these pagan records contain highly exaggerated, mathematically inflated numbers
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  Speaker 1: used to legitimize royal dynasties, the structural memory is exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same as the biblical account. They remember a world
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  Speaker 1: before a global deluge in which human existence was measured
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  Speaker 1: in extraordinary lengths of time. A flood event occurs, and
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  Speaker 1: then a world after in which those extraordinary lengths are gone.
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  Speaker 1: The Sumerian, Egyptian, and Babylonian records do not confirm Genesis
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  Speaker 1: in every numerical detail, but they preserve the exact same
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  Speaker 1: historical footprint. The memory of a world in which humans
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  Speaker 1: lived far beyond anything we now experience and of a
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  Speaker 1: catastrophic event that ended it. This was not a story
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  Speaker 1: invented by one culture in isolation. It was a reality
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  Speaker 1: remembered across the ancient world. This means we are no
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  Speaker 1: longer working with a single religious text that can be
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  Speaker 1: dismissed as internal mythology. We are working with a convergence
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  Speaker 1: of cultural memory from civilizations that did not share a
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  Speaker 1: religious tradition, and that convergence points toward a real historical phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: The lifespans of the patriarchs were literal. The question that
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  Speaker 1: remains is biological. How did the human body sustain itself
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  Speaker 1: for 900 years? To answer that, we have to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the very beginning. Back to the blueprint before
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  Speaker 1: the damage began. There is a field of study within
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  Speaker 1: modern genetics called genetic entropy. The concept was developed and
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  Speaker 1: formalized in the work of geneticist John Sanford, who spent
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  Speaker 1: decades studying the accumulation of mutations in the human genome.
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  Speaker 1: The core finding is straightforward and carries profound implications. With
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  Speaker 1: each successive generation, the human genome accumulates small copying errors.
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  Speaker 1: These are mutations, minor misspellings in the biological instructions that
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  Speaker 1: govern how our bodies are built and how they function. Individually,
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  Speaker 1: most of these errors are nearly invisible. They do not
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  Speaker 1: cause immediate disease or observable deformity, but they accumulate. Generation
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  Speaker 1: after generation, copying error after copying error, the genome degrades.
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  Speaker 1: The biological instructions become slightly less precise. The systems they
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  Speaker 1: govern become slightly less efficient. Over thousands of years, what
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  Speaker 1: began as a near-perfect biological manuscript becomes increasingly corrupted text.
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  Speaker 1: Think of Adam's DNA as a high-definition master copy of
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  Speaker 1: a photograph. When Adam had children, the copy that transferred
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  Speaker 1: to the next generation was essentially perfect. The resolution was complete.
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  Speaker 1: The detail was total. There were no visible defects of degradation,
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  Speaker 1: no lines of distortion, no loss of information. But when
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  Speaker 1: that perfect copy was itself copied, the second generation carried
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  Speaker 1: the faintest trace of imprecision. When the second copy was
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  Speaker 1: copied again, the imprecision deepened. Across 6,000 years and hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of generations, we are now a photocopy of a photocopy
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  Speaker 1: of a photocopy of a photocopy. The ink is fading.
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  Speaker 1: The image is still recognizable, but the original resolution is gone.
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve carried zero inherited genetic mutations. Their bodies
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  Speaker 1: were not fighting the accumulated errors of thousands of prior generations.
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  Speaker 1: They were operating from the master file. And a body
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  Speaker 1: operating from a master file, with no inherited degradation and
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  Speaker 1: no compounding copying errors, is a body built to sustain
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  Speaker 1: itself for an extraordinary length of time. To understand the
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  Speaker 1: mechanics of this longevity, we must look at the cellular level,
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  Speaker 1: specifically at structures called telomeres. Telomeres are the protective caps
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  Speaker 1: at the ends of our chromosomes, often compared to the
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  Speaker 1: plastic tips on shoelaces. Every time a cell divides, its
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  Speaker 1: DNA must replicate, and in that process, the telomeres shorten.
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  Speaker 1: Once the telomeres reach a critically short length, the cell
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  Speaker 1: can no longer divide. It enters a state of senescence,
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  Speaker 1: or cellular old age. and eventually dies. This biological limit
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  Speaker 1: is known as the Hayflick limit, and it serves as
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  Speaker 1: the hard ceiling on human longevity today. In the pre-flood world,
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  Speaker 1: a pristine genome operating without inherited mutations would have possessed
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  Speaker 1: telomeres of optimal length and stability. Furthermore, the cellular replication
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  Speaker 1: machinery would have functioned with absolute precision, preventing the rapid
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  Speaker 1: erosion of these protective caps. Without the genetic load of
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  Speaker 1: inherited mutations, cells could replicate hundreds of times before reaching
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  Speaker 1: the Hayflick limit. The body could repair and regenerate its
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  Speaker 1: tissues indefinitely. The heart could beat, The lungs could expand,
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  Speaker 1: and the liver could filter toxins for 900 years because
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  Speaker 1: the cellular clock was ticking at a fraction of the
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  Speaker 1: speed it does today. This genomic reality also resolves one
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  Speaker 1: of the most frequently raised objections to the early chapters
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis. If Adam and Eve were the first human beings,
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  Speaker 1: and if their children had no other option but to
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  Speaker 1: marry among themselves, how is it that the early generations
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  Speaker 1: did not suffer the severe genetic deformities we associate with
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  Speaker 1: close relation reproduction today? The answer lies precisely in the
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  Speaker 1: condition of the genome in those earliest generations. Genetic deformities
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  Speaker 1: from close relation marriages arise when two individuals who carry
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  Speaker 1: the same recessive mutations pass those matching errors to their children.
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  Speaker 1: The child who inherits two copies of the same defective
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  Speaker 1: gene is the child who expresses the disease. In the
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  Speaker 1: first several generations of human life, there were no inherited
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  Speaker 1: mutations to match. The genome was pristine. There were no
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  Speaker 1: defective recessive copies to combine. The gene pool was, to
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  Speaker 1: use the most accurate metaphor available, clean water. The conditions
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  Speaker 1: that make close relation reproduction genetically dangerous today did not
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  Speaker 1: exist in the earliest generations of human history. The danger
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  Speaker 1: compounded only as the genome degraded, exactly as the genetic
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  Speaker 1: entropy model would predict. But the biological architecture of the
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  Speaker 1: human body was not the only variable that distinguished the
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  Speaker 1: antediluvian world from our own. The environment in which those
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  Speaker 1: bodies existed was itself fundamentally different, and the key to
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  Speaker 1: understanding that difference lies in a text that most readers
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  Speaker 1: pass over without pausing to consider its full implications. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 1 verse 7 records that on the second day
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  Speaker 1: of creation, God made an expanse and separated the waters
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  Speaker 1: below the expanse from the waters above the expanse. Most
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  Speaker 1: readers understand the waters below as the oceans and rivers
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  Speaker 1: of the earth's surface. the waters above are more difficult
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  Speaker 1: to situate. The straightforward reading of the Hebrew text places
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  Speaker 1: a significant body of water above the atmosphere of the
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  Speaker 1: earth itself, a layer of water suspended above the created sky.
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  Speaker 1: This points to a pre-flood world protected by a different
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  Speaker 1: atmospheric and hydrological shield, a global, radiation-filtering greenhouse environment that
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  Speaker 1: has since collapsed. The potential effects of such a shield,
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  Speaker 1: if it existed... are significant. Dense water vapor in the
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  Speaker 1: upper atmosphere would have functioned as a barrier against incoming
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  Speaker 1: cosmic radiation and ultraviolet light. Cosmic radiation is one of
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  Speaker 1: the primary biological stressors that contributes to cellular damage, genetic mutation,
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  Speaker 1: double-strand DNA breaks, and rapid telomere degradation. Every day we
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  Speaker 1: walk outside, cosmic rays damage our cells. Under the shielding
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  Speaker 1: of this pre-flood atmospheric environment, the radiation bombardment reaching the
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  Speaker 1: Earth's surface would have been virtually non-existent. The cells of
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  Speaker 1: every living organism on the surface would have sustained far
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  Speaker 1: less radiation-induced damage per year than they do today. The
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  Speaker 1: rate of mutation would have been lower. The rate of
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  Speaker 1: cellular degradation would have been slower. The telomeres would have
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  Speaker 1: been shielded from the oxidative stress that accelerates their shortening.
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  Speaker 1: and a body already operating from a pristine genome, exposed
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  Speaker 1: to a radiation environment significantly gentler than our own, would
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  Speaker 1: have possessed a biological resilience that is genuinely difficult for
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  Speaker 1: us to imagine from our current position. This also aligns
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  Speaker 1: with a detail in Genesis chapter 2 that is easily overlooked.
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  Speaker 1: The text records that before the flood, it had not
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  Speaker 1: yet rained upon the earth. The ground was watered by
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  Speaker 1: a mist that rose from the surface. The entire pre-flood
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  Speaker 1: hydrological cycle was different. Water did not fall from the sky.
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  Speaker 1: It emerged from below and perhaps condensed from above. The
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  Speaker 1: implications for atmospheric pressure are significant. Some researchers propose that
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  Speaker 1: the pre-flood Earth would have had higher atmospheric oxygen concentrations
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  Speaker 1: and elevated atmospheric pressure. conditions that modern hyperbaric medicine recognizes
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  Speaker 1: as highly favorable to biological healing and cellular repair. We
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  Speaker 1: know from hyperbaric oxygen therapy that pressurized oxygen-rich environments accelerate
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  Speaker 1: the body's ability to repair damaged tissue and stimulate stem
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  Speaker 1: cell production. If the pre-flood atmosphere approximated those conditions on
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  Speaker 1: a global permanent scale, it would help explain the extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: regenerative capacity that would have been necessary to sustain a
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  Speaker 1: 900-year lifespan. It must be stated plainly that the precise
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  Speaker 1: mechanism of the pre-flood atmospheric shield remains a subject of
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  Speaker 1: ongoing discussion among researchers, and scholars remain divided on its
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  Speaker 1: exact nature and extent. What can be said with confidence
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  Speaker 1: is this. The pre-flood world, as the biblical text describes it,
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  Speaker 1: was operating under atmospheric and hydrological conditions that no longer exist.
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  Speaker 1: The text is explicit on this point. Whatever the exact mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: the antediluvia, environment was categorically different from what followed, and
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  Speaker 1: those who lived within it, carrying a genome free of
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  Speaker 1: accumulated error, breathing air their descendants would never breathe, shielded
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  Speaker 1: from radiation their descendants would absorb unfiltered, were not living
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  Speaker 1: in our world. They were living in a world that
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  Speaker 1: has since been permanently and catastrophically altered. And then it broke.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 7 verse 11 is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: geologically loaded sentences in the entire biblical text. On the
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  Speaker 1: 17th day of the second month in the 600th year
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  Speaker 1: of Noah's life, two things happened simultaneously. The fountains of
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  Speaker 1: the great deep burst open. and the windows of heaven
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  Speaker 1: were opened. The Hebrew word translated fountains refers to springs
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  Speaker 1: or sources of water beneath the earth's surface. The word
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  Speaker 1: translated great deep refers to the subterranean water reservoirs described
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  Speaker 1: in the creation account. What the text is describing is
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  Speaker 1: a global rupture, a simultaneous fracturing of the earth's crust
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  Speaker 1: from below and a collapse of the atmospheric water above.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the atmospheric shield had been, whatever the waters above
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  Speaker 1: the expanse had consisted of, they fell. The terrarium shattered.
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  Speaker 1: The shield collapsed. And the world on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of that event was not the same world that had
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  Speaker 1: existed before it. To understand the geological magnitude of this collapse,
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  Speaker 1: we must look at the model of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics,
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  Speaker 1: or CPT. Developed by creation geophysicists, this model proposes that
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  Speaker 1: the fountains of the great deep bursting open was the
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  Speaker 1: rapid catastrophic rifting of the Earth's ocean floors. The pre-flood
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  Speaker 1: ocean floor was colder and denser than the hot mantle below.
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  Speaker 1: Under specific stresses, this floor began to sink rapidly, subducting
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  Speaker 1: into the mantle at rates of meters per second rather
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  Speaker 1: than centimeters per year. This triggered a global runaway subduction.
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  Speaker 1: As the ocean plates sank, massive cracks opened along the
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  Speaker 1: mid-ocean ridges. Superheated magma from the mantle rushed up to
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  Speaker 1: contact the cold ocean water. This did not just boil
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  Speaker 1: the sea. It sent supersonic geysers of superheated steam blasting
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  Speaker 1: up through the atmosphere and into the stratosphere. This steam
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  Speaker 1: column carried vast amounts of water into the upper atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: which then condensed and fell back as torrential rain for
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  Speaker 1: 40 days and 40 nights. The atmospheric shield was completely
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  Speaker 1: swept away in this collapse. The ocean floor was completely replaced,
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  Speaker 1: new mountain ranges were rapidly pushed up by tectonic collisions,
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  Speaker 1: and the continents were violently rearranged. The consequences for human
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  Speaker 1: biology would have been immediate and permanent. Without a protective
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  Speaker 1: atmospheric shield, cosmic radiation reaching the Earth's surface increased substantially,
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  Speaker 1: The mutation rate in living organisms rose. The genetic degradation
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  Speaker 1: that had been accumulating slowly since the original creation now
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  Speaker 1: accelerated under the pressure of a far harsher radiation environment.
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  Speaker 1: The hydrological cycle transformed. Rain became the mechanism of water distribution.
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  Speaker 1: Atmospheric pressure likely changed. The conditions that had supported a
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  Speaker 1: 900-year lifespan were gone, not gradually. not over millennia, but
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  Speaker 1: within a single catastrophic event. The biological clock that had
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  Speaker 1: been running at a fraction of its current speed was
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  Speaker 1: suddenly reset to something far more aggressive. The evidence for
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  Speaker 1: this biological reset is embedded directly in the genealogical record
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  Speaker 1: that follows the flood account, and when you read those
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  Speaker 1: numbers in sequence, the effect is not subtle. It is
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  Speaker 1: a countdown. Noah lived 950 years. His son Shem lived
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  Speaker 1: 600 years. Shem's descendant Eber lived 464 years. Peleg four
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  Speaker 1: generations from Noah, lived 239 years. Nahor, Abraham's grandfather, lived
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  Speaker 1: 148 years. Abraham himself reached 175 years. Isaac lived 180 years. Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: 147 years. Joseph, 110 years. Moses, 120 years. David, 70 years.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a random list of numbers. Read them
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  Speaker 1: again in sequence and notice what they form. They form
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  Speaker 1: a curve. A precise descending biological curve that drops steeply
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  Speaker 1: in the generations immediately following the flood and then levels
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  Speaker 1: into the range of 60 to 120 years where it
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  Speaker 1: has remained ever since. Geneticists and population biologists studying this
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  Speaker 1: sequence have noted that the shape of this curve is
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  Speaker 1: consistent with what population genetics models predict for a post-bottleneck
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  Speaker 1: population suddenly exposed to a significantly increased mutation rate and
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  Speaker 1: environmental stress. It is what researchers call a biological half-life.
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  Speaker 1: the measurable, predictable pattern of decay in a system that
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  Speaker 1: has lost the conditions that sustained it. To understand why
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  Speaker 1: that boundary was necessary, you have to do something difficult.
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  Speaker 1: You have to think seriously about what a 900-year lifespan
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  Speaker 1: would look like on the wrong side of the fall,
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  Speaker 1: not the idyllic vision of a patriarchal sage dispensing wisdom
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  Speaker 1: across centuries, the darker and more honest vision. Consider a
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  Speaker 1: human being with the intellect, the ambition, and the capacity
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  Speaker 1: for cruelty that we observe in the worst figures of
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  Speaker 1: recorded history. A man with the strategic mind of a
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  Speaker 1: conqueror and the patient ruthlessness of a tyrant. Now give
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  Speaker 1: that man not seventy years, but nine hundred, nine centuries
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  Speaker 1: to accumulate wealth. Nine centuries to build networks of influence
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  Speaker 1: and control. Nine centuries to refine his methods, to outlast
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  Speaker 1: his rivals, to consolidate his power across generations that come
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  Speaker 1: and go while he remains. Nine centuries to perfect ideology,
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  Speaker 1: to construct institutions of oppression, to pursue grievances across time
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  Speaker 1: frames that no victim could survive long enough to resist.
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  Speaker 1: Evil compounds over time. It learns. It adapts. it builds
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  Speaker 1: on itself. A lifetime of corruption in seventy years produces
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  Speaker 1: a certain depth of damage. A lifetime of corruption in
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred years, compounding across every decade, building on every
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  Speaker 1: prior decade, is something categorically different. And Genesis chapter 6
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  Speaker 1: records that this is precisely what the pre-flood world had become.
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  Speaker 1: The text mentions the Nephilim, the fallen ones, the tyrannical
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  Speaker 1: lords of violence and renown. whose genetic and military dominance
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  Speaker 1: held the ancient world in an iron grip. The text
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  Speaker 1: says the wickedness of man was great on the earth
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  Speaker 1: and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart
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  Speaker 1: was only evil continually. The antediluvian world had reached a
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  Speaker 1: state of moral saturation that left no residual ground for
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  Speaker 1: redemption to take root. 900-year lifespans had given human evil
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  Speaker 1: nine centuries per individual to entrench itself. to multiply, to
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  Speaker 1: poison everything around it. Dynasties of violence were built that
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  Speaker 1: could never be broken by normal human lifespans. God did
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  Speaker 1: not send the flood because he was angry at sinners
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  Speaker 1: who had simply made the same mistakes humans always make.
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  Speaker 1: He sent the flood because the accumulated weight of centuries
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  Speaker 1: of unchecked, compounding, institutional evil had made the earth something
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  Speaker 1: that could no longer be reformed from within. It had
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  Speaker 1: to be washed, and when he rebuilt the world on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of that water, he built it differently.
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  Speaker 1: He built it with a shorter clock, not as punishment.
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  Speaker 1: As for architecture, a human lifespan of 70 to 120
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  Speaker 1: years is not a tragedy in a fallen world. It
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  Speaker 1: is a firewall. It is the engineering of a boundary
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  Speaker 1: that limits the depth to which any single human corruption
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  Speaker 1: can take root before the biological clock runs out and
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  Speaker 1: the position is vacated. It is the reason that no dictator,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of their ambition, has ever managed to personally hold
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  Speaker 1: absolute power for more than a few decades. The clock
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  Speaker 1: runs out. The system gets the chance to breathe. The
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  Speaker 1: next generation inherits a world that, however damaged, has at
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  Speaker 1: least been partially cleared of the specific human agent who
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  Speaker 1: was doing the most damage. God did not shorten our
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  Speaker 1: lifespans because he stopped valuing human life. He shortened them
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  Speaker 1: because he understood, with perfect clarity, what human life becomes
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  Speaker 1: when it is given unlimited time inside a fallen nature.
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  Speaker 1: A 70-year lifespan is a quarantine on human evil. It
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  Speaker 1: is the hard and compassionate limit that prevents the antediluvian
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  Speaker 1: condition from repeating itself. Every generation that ends is also
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  Speaker 1: an ending of everything that particular generation had the capacity
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  Speaker 1: to destroy. That is not cruelty. It is the most
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  Speaker 1: sophisticated form of mercy imaginable, a mercy that costs us
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  Speaker 1: the long life we were built for in exchange for
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  Speaker 1: a world that survives long enough to be redeemed. Consider
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  Speaker 1: what this means. The post-flood genealogies of Genesis are not
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  Speaker 1: simply a record of who lived and died. They are
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  Speaker 1: a biological dataset. They are the documentation of a species
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  Speaker 1: in genomic freefall, losing ground with each generation, the compounding
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  Speaker 1: weight of accumulated mutations, and environmental damage shortening the operational
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  Speaker 1: lifespan of the human machine in a pattern that is
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  Speaker 1: mathematically coherent and biologically explicable. The text was not recording
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  Speaker 1: arbitrary numbers. It was recording reality. The biological collapse of
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  Speaker 1: the post-flood world was not limited to radiation and mutation alone.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 9 verse 3 records a significant and often
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  Speaker 1: under-examined change in human diet. Before the flood, the text
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  Speaker 1: implies that the human diet was plant-based. After the flood,
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  Speaker 1: God expanded the dietary permission to include every living creature
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  Speaker 1: that moves. This was not a moral preference. This was
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  Speaker 1: a biological accommodation to a changed world. The catastrophe that
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  Speaker 1: reshaped the atmosphere also reshaped the ecology. The extraordinarily nutrient-dense
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  Speaker 1: plant life of the pre-flood world, grown in a radiation-shielded
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  Speaker 1: greenhouse environment with mineral-rich soil unaffected by millennia of erosion,
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  Speaker 1: was gone. The post-flood Earth was a harder, harsher place.
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  Speaker 1: the food supply was less complete, the body required alternative
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  Speaker 1: nutritional sources to sustain basic function. Meat became necessary because
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  Speaker 1: the original food system could no longer support human biology
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  Speaker 1: at the level it once had. The body that had
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  Speaker 1: operated on a perfect biological fuel was now running on
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  Speaker 1: a diminished and more demanding alternative. Digesting complex animal proteins
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  Speaker 1: requires the body to expend far more metabolic energy, creating
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  Speaker 1: metabolic byproducts, free radicals, and systemic inflammation that contribute directly
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  Speaker 1: to cellular aging. The post-flood human body was not only
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  Speaker 1: absorbing more radiation and accumulating genetic errors faster than its predecessors.
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  Speaker 1: It was also working harder to extract nutrition from a
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  Speaker 1: depleted world, burning through its biological reserves at a rate
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  Speaker 1: that the antediluvian body had never needed to approach. Every
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  Speaker 1: variable that had sustained 900-year lifespans was removed within a
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  Speaker 1: single generation. The atmospheric shield was gone. The pristine genome
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  Speaker 1: was degrading faster. The diet had changed, the atmospheric conditions
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  Speaker 1: had shifted, and the curve descended. exactly as physics and
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  Speaker 1: biology and genetics would predict, exactly as the text recorded.
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  Speaker 1: But here is what most people never ask. Why did
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  Speaker 1: God let it stay broken? There is a verse in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 6 that most people read as a statement
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  Speaker 1: of limitation and pass over without pausing to consider its
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  Speaker 1: full weight. The Lord said, My spirit will not contend
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  Speaker 1: with humans forever, for they are mortal. Their days will
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  Speaker 1: be a hundred and twenty years. For generations, readers have
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  Speaker 1: interpreted this verse as a countdown to the flood, a
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  Speaker 1: final warning, a closing of the window before the waters came.
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  Speaker 1: And that interpretation is not wrong, but it is incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you place this verse beside everything we have
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  Speaker 1: now examined about the pre-flood world and the post-flood biological collapse,
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  Speaker 1: it begins to carry a meaning far deeper than a
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  Speaker 1: simple announcement of judgment. God was not merely setting a deadline,
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  Speaker 1: he was describing a new architecture for human existence. He
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  Speaker 1: was announcing that the conditions under which 900-year lifespans were
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  Speaker 1: possible would not be restored, and the reason he gave
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  Speaker 1: was not punishment, it was the nature of mortal humanity itself.
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  Speaker 1: His spirit would not contend forever with a humanity that
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  Speaker 1: had chosen corruption. The limitation on lifespan was not the
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  Speaker 1: withdrawal of a gift. It was the merciful engineering of
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  Speaker 1: a boundary on how much damage a fallen human nature
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  Speaker 1: could accumulate and inflict before it was reset. Because this
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  Speaker 1: is the final and most important truth embedded in the
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  Speaker 1: Genesis decay curve. The shortened lifespan is not the permanent design.
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  Speaker 1: It is the temporary architecture of a fallen age. God
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  Speaker 1: did not abandon the original blueprint when the waters fell.
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  Speaker 1: He preserved it. He moved it forward. He placed it
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  Speaker 1: in the hands of a second Adam who came not
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  Speaker 1: to live 900 years, but to conquer death entirely. As
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul wrote, For as in Adam all die,
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  Speaker 1: so in Christ all will be made alive. The biological
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  Speaker 1: decay curve that started at the fall is permanently reversed
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  Speaker 1: at the resurrection. The promise encoded in the restoration texts
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  Speaker 1: of Scripture. Isaiah 65 describing a new creation in which
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  Speaker 1: a man who dies at a hundred will be considered
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  Speaker 1: a child. Revelation 22 restoring access to the tree of life,
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection body described by Paul as imperishable and fitted
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  Speaker 1: for eternity. These are not poetic consolations. They are the
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  Speaker 1: return of the original architecture. The Master Copy Restored The
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  Speaker 1: genome of the new creation, uncorrupted. The atmosphere of a
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  Speaker 1: world that has never again been touched by the consequences
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  Speaker 1: of a broken covenant. The atmospheric shield will not need
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  Speaker 1: to return. The radiation will not need to be filtered.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the world that is coming, the source of
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  Speaker 1: the decay, the moral entropy that triggered the physical entropy,
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  Speaker 1: will have been permanently removed. The biological half-life of the
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  Speaker 1: Genesis decay curve runs to its terminus not in death,
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  Speaker 1: but in resurrection. And what is raised will not be
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  Speaker 1: a photocopy of a photocopy. It will be the original.
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  Speaker 1: Adam lived 930 years, and then he died. Methuselah lived
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  Speaker 1: 969 years, and then he died. Every name in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: 5 ends the same way. Every extraordinary lifespan arrives at
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  Speaker 1: the same destination. And for centuries, that ending seemed like
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  Speaker 1: the final word on human existence, a long story with
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  Speaker 1: a short conclusion. But there is another record, one that
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  Speaker 1: runs parallel to the genealogy of death, one that counts
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  Speaker 1: not years of biological survival, but something far more durable.
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  Speaker 1: And in that record, the final entry reads differently. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: believes in him will not perish but have eternal life,
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  Speaker 1: not nine hundred years, not nine hundred and sixty-nine, forever.
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  Speaker 1: Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.
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  Speaker 1: Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.
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  Speaker 1: But whoever believes in him will live forever, and this
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  Speaker 1: time there will be no flood. If this investigation opened
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  Speaker 1: something in you, if the weight of what Genesis is
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  Speaker 1: actually saying landed differently today than it ever has before,
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