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Line 240: − ==Human lifespan== − According to the [[Bible's]] book of Genesis, God restricted the human lifespan to 120 years during the time of [[the Flood]]: {{cquote|And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=6|verses=3}}}} − − According to the book of Psalms, the average human lifespan (which at the time of the writing would have been 3,000 years ago, and we know must have been at least 2,500 years ago given the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]) was 70 years: {{cquote|The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. {{Bible ref|book=Psalms|chap=90|verses=10}}}}
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Prior to the flood, {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=5}} records that people lived extraordinarily long lives: routinely over 900 years. [[Methuselah]] is known for living longer than any other human in history, dying at the age of 969.
Prior to the flood, {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=5}} records that people lived extraordinarily long lives: routinely over 900 years. [[Methuselah]] is known for living longer than any other human in history, dying at the age of 969.
==Human lifespan==
According to the [[Bible's]] book of Genesis, God restricted the human lifespan to 120 years during the time of [[the Flood]]: {{cquote|And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=6|verses=3}}}}
According to the book of Psalms, the average human lifespan (which at the time of the writing would have been 3,000 years ago, and we know must have been at least 2,500 years ago given the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]) was 70 years: {{cquote|The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. {{Bible ref|book=Psalms|chap=90|verses=10}}}}
== Pre-flood longevity ==
== Pre-flood longevity ==
This longevity is believed by [[Creationists]] to be so extraordinarily long in part because environmental conditions were optimal before the [[Earth]] was destroyed during the [[global flood]], per [[Canopy theory]].
This longevity is believed by [[Creationists]] to be so extraordinarily long in part because environmental conditions were optimal before the [[Earth]] was destroyed during the [[global flood]], per [[Canopy theory]].
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