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Serious question. There are biblical accounts of people living hundreds of years. For people who like to find scientific explanations for biblical stories, is this plausible?


No, because the underlying mechanism of intentional aging (as opposed to incidental) isn't plausible. The top level comment is pure fantasy.

There's extensive scientific research on the subject of aging if you care to sink time into reading about it.

Consider one of the many examples of embedded systems that suffered from subtle bugs that were dependent on environmental factors after they were left running for too long. The official manufacturer provided solution was to reboot (ie there is no solution). Now imagine someone in a comment section somewhere proposes the idea that these bugs are actually intentional program features. That's the scientific level this discussion is at.


I see. Thanks.




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