07.29.07
Some Follow Up on the Life Expectancy of Man
My son, Andrew, finally used one of his Christmas gift certificates and bought the book Days of Peleg. Once it arrived in the mail, he couldn’t put the book down until he was finished, ha! Or so it seemed. He liked the book so well that he wrote a review of it on his blog, Willful Ignorance. This morning he informed me that he got a comment on his blog from John Saboe, author of Days of Peleg. Wow, how nice!
A while back I had written an entry on my blog I titled, “How Old is Old?” and linked it to Andrew’s first blog entry he titled, “Line of Symmetry.” It dealt with the life expectancies of people through the ages. Evidently, Saboe added a comment to that thread as well. I though he had some interesting comments and insight to the topic of the life expectancy of man, so would like to link his comment here as a follow up. He begins his comment as follows:
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I wanted to point out that at the time Sarai and Abram went to Egypt, the average life expectancy IN Egypt was around 120. However, at that same time, in Mesopotamia, the average life expectancy was much higher – around 250! This was well known by the Egyptians who were dealing with the fear that comes from constantly decreasing life-spans. . . ”
His complete response can be viewed here.
Andrew’s birthday was actually yesterday. He’s now 19 years old! Ack! We ordered the Ussher’s Chronology set for him, which unfortunately has not arrived, yet. I’m actually anxious to get a peek at it, too, and may likely blog about it later on. It should have interesting insight as to the ages of the people mentioned in the Bible and subseqently, the age of the earth according to Ussher’s study of the ages of the people noted in the Bible.
Well, gotta dash for now.
Marlakins 
