Showing posts with label bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bible. Show all posts

Monday, February 26, 2007

Bible, Meet Web

Speaking of the Bible, here's a cool, free site that has the whole thing--readable, searchable, and in several versions. So the next time you need to know if a phrase like "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is from the Bible you know where to turn. (It isn't.)

Click on the title above to go to the site...

Longevity and the Bible

An interesting article here positing the theory that, as God decreed the maximum age of humanity to be 120 years in the book of Genesis, the ages given in subsequent genealogies drop significantly (but not immediately) due to a supernatural adjustment to their DNA which is still measurable today.

Notable for, if nothing else, the ages compiled from the Bible showing spectacular lifespans (900+ years) of early humans dropping significantly toward more familiar lengths.

click on the title above for the full article...