Why, if god limited man's life to 120 years, did people live longer?

Hello, TPlanck, and welcome to EvC!I've never seen a name given for Mrs Noah before - that's interesting that your translation has one. We've been around this "vapor canopy" barn many times here, but I would like to point out that both oxygen and nitrogen absorb ultraviolet light better than water does. That's on an equal-weight basis, now, so if you want 50% of all our oceans as a "canopy," you may stop most of the UV, 'Course, you also trap all the heat then, too....

All available evidence - and that's a very great amount of it - flatly contradicts, for just one example, the order of creation in Genesis 1. Fruit trees most certainly did not precede jellyfish, sharks, or great blue herons. Seed-bearing plants weren't around before the stars and Moon. Birds didn't precede quadrupeds.And I know you're new here, RC, so I'll warn you now: Answers in Genesis usually gets at best snorts of disgust here. Most of their apologetics is what is called PRATTs - Points Refuted A Thousand Times.

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

Give me until this evening, and I will either open a new thread or refer you to an old one where this topic has been discussed. It would lead us off topic here,

Would you care to address how water did that, as it is transparent further into the ultraviolet than either nitrogen or oxygen are? I don't see mention of that on your link. Now your link does mention Venus, but fails to mention that it's over 800 degrees F there, all the time.And nobody called you a spammer. Anthonylau was the spammer.