{"id":1732,"date":"2008-10-17T15:27:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2008-10-17T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:33:25","slug":"would-you-like-to-be-a-centenarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/10\/would-you-like-to-be-a-centenarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you like to be a centenarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently working on a literature survey on the genetics of ageing when I came across a series of nice monographs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demogr.mpg.de\/Papers\/Books\/Monograph2\/search.htm\">Max Planck Institute<\/a> in Rostock. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; the Deluge swept away the pluricentenarians. Ernest (1938) mentioned that the semi-divine persons of the Hindu Sagas lived hundred of thousands of years, and that on average each of ten rulers of Ancient Babylon lived about 43,000 years.<!--more--> The antediluvian patriarchs lived almost 1,000 years (Adam 930 years, Seth 912 years, Jared 962 years, Enoch 965 years, Lamech 777 years and the oldest: Methuselah 969 years). Noah, who survived the Deluge, reached the age of 950 years. &#8230;. supercentenarians from modern historic time: Sarah 127 years, Ismail 137 years, Isaac 180 years, Jacob 147 years, Joseph 110 years, Moses 120 years, Aaron 110 years. More realistic perhaps is the declaration in Psalm 90: &#8220;The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years&#8230;.&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, certainly more realistic, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20PETER%203:8-22;&#038;version=31;\">one day is like a thousand years<\/a>, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently working on a literature survey on the genetics of ageing when I came across a series of nice monographs at the Max Planck Institute in Rostock. &#8230; the Deluge swept away the pluricentenarians. Ernest (1938) mentioned that the semi-divine persons of the Hindu Sagas lived hundred of thousands of years, and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/10\/would-you-like-to-be-a-centenarian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would you like to be a centenarian?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[2213,177,2197,2203,2205,2200,2207,2209,2199,2204,2210,2212,2196,2211,2206,2208,2202],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology","tag-abraham","tag-ageing","tag-ancient-babylon","tag-antediluvian","tag-deluge","tag-divine-persons","tag-enoch","tag-ismail","tag-literature-survey","tag-methuselah","tag-monographs","tag-noah","tag-psalm-90","tag-rostock","tag-sagas","tag-supercentenarians","tag-time-sarah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}