How can wikipedian claim that Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was the unverified oldest living person when she only purportedly lived to 127 when there are people in the bible who purportedly lived for hundreds of years?
The bible’s claims aren’t reliable enough for Wikipedia’s standards.
And what makes Ms. Lumbreras’s claims any more reliable?
Because they have proof in the form of birth certificates and such while we don’t even have a body to back up the Bible’s claims? It’s all just words with zero proof that people lived hundreds of years as claimed in the Bible, so why SHOULD wiki post that as fact?
Despite losing her birth certificate, I’m pretty sure Ms. Lumbreras actually existed, and was really really old. That gives her a big leg up on Methuselah.
Totally missed that it’s unverified. Here is the link if anyone is interested. Still more plausible than the Bible, and like Cheesesteak said, she was really really old, even if perhaps not what she claimed while we have zip from the Bible wrt physical proof.
Your join date is 2005 and you ask a stupid question like that? The bible is wrong, nobody ever lived for hundreds of years.
Because the Bible is a work of myth and legend. The Old Testament in particular has no more factual basis than the Iliad.
Jeanne Calment is the longest living person ever, not counting fairy tales.
I was reading the other day (don’t remember where) that there is some debate that the ages for some of those accounts in the bible May have been based on lunar cycles. I guess I could buy this, but I though there was also a part in Genesis or somewhere where god decided “my bad - you guys are living too long - starting today I’m making 120 the limit.”
Which might make me believe in it more if people were dying on their 120th birthday. Also I think the guy who came up with the whole “the earth is only 4000 years old” (or was it 6000?) would have to redo his calculations.
But back to the OP - are you actually serious? I’m sure there are other religions somewhere that have someone who lived even longer.
Didn’t the Epic of Gilgamesh have some kings who lived to be 65,000 years old? And according to some Hindu stories I’ve heard, there are priests who have been living in a cave playing the Towers of Hanoi game with 64 disks since the beginning of time. When the last disk is put into place, the world will end. It will take them at best half a trillion years. And that puts Methuselah to shame.
Unless those monks plan to switch planets in the next 2 billion years they are fucked though, so I hope they are scouting out new digs. Not that they need to rush, but it’s going to be pretty uncomfortable on the Earth in the next 500 million years or so…they might want to get crackin’…
They’ll never get done. Those other monks who just have to list the 9 billion names of God got a printer and they should be done any minute n
I’m the oldest human, in that nothing important happened before I was born, nor will anything important happen after I die.
I don’t see China represented on those charts. Just given population dynamics, shouldn’t China be producing people who live a long time?
Apparently China isn’t counted in international statistics, since there was no reliable system for certifying most births until after the Communist Party took power in 1949. That article discusses claims of a 127-year-old Chinese woman.
Cool, thanks. Been thinking about the huge population of China. My gf, just back from Iceland asked me to guess the three most common origins on tourists in Iceland. I guessed US and UK right away, but never came up with number 3, China.