proof of everlasting life?

peacefulpete

One of the evidences offered by the WT that humans were "designed to live forever" was the vast number of eggs a woman has yet she ovulates once and exposes 1 egg for fertilization each month. It seemed logical then that women were designed to live incredible lifespans.

Well, reality is something different. Mammalian reproduction is quite a complex thing. Human females at birth in fact have 2-4 million follicles (each produces a single egg) yet by puberty the majority have already expired so that she has about 300,000 left. During her entire lifespan she will have exposed only 300-500 eggs to be potentially fertilized yet she will be nearly out of eggs by menopause. Interestingly recent findings (discovered in mice) reveal that new follicles are being produced throughout the female's life but this ability apparently diminishes with age and never keeps up with the loss. So this means these delicate follicles are of very sort lifespan and dying at an incredible rate. If women had any less eggs than the millions they have at birth they would not have any potential to reproduce. They have exactly what is expected for a creature having evolved this method of reproduction and living a lifespan we do.

Further, other mammals have similarly proportinately appropriate numbers of eggs.

nowisee

hmmmm....

it is intimidating to realize a male person (at least i think you are) knows more about me than i do!

very interesting.

best wishes, nowisee

fairchild

To be perfectly honest, I always had a hard time believing in proof of everlasting life. It does not make sense to me. We are a part of nature, and everything in nature dies eventually. Even the stars burn out. A year has 4 seasons, and a life has seasons as well. Plants sprout out of a seed, then they grow, mature, and eventually, they die. We are able to keep ourselves alive longer than we used to because of modern technology, but we will still grow old and die. We are like plants, or anything else in nature. We sprout, grow, mature, age and die. Where is the proof of everlasting life in this? If God had intended to keep us on earth forever, we would see this "proof" accordingly. I believe that, if he had intended for us to be here forever, he would also have made the trees to live forever. It would have been a general earthly feature. Things and people would grow, mature and then stagnate instead of aging towards death. Just my simple thoughts. If it were perfect Adam and Eve who messed things up, then why do animals grow old and die? What did they do wrong? Wouldn't God have intended to let us live forever with our friends the animals? No, I don't think that anything or anyone was made to last forever.

trevor

If an all powerful God were to grant someone everlasting life, he would cease to be all powerful, as he would no longer have control over life and death.

This means all everlasting life that is granted has to be conditional. This means it is negotiable at any time God decides the person is not pleasing him, so it is not everlasting at all.

These are the sort of difficulties that arise when we try to invent a deity in the image of man.

kid-A

Excellent post. Another piece of biological evidence comes from chromosomal division in mammalian cells. With each division, the telomeres regulating this process get progressively shorter, to the point where the cell can no longer divide and simply dies of its own accord.....if humans were "designed" for eternal life, such a self-destruction mechanism would not have been built into the molecular machinery of all of our cells. Even stem cells are restricted in their locations and ability to repopulate regions of cell loss. So, we are all born with a limited warranty.....