From: "Andy Pandy" 
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y uk.education.misc uk.education.schools-it uk.finance uk.food+drink.misc uk.food+drink.real-ale
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Subject: Re: 10 Reasons to go veggie
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:01:31 +0100


"John Cartmell"  wrote in message
news:4e68553516john@cartmell.demon.co.uk...
> In article <1158587829.89091.0@despina.uk.clara.net>, Andy Pandy
>  wrote:
> > > Evidence. I've been told that about people for whom I have the baptismal
> > > and burial records - and that wasn't true either.
>
> > What wasn't true? How many million people living more than a few hundred
> > years ago do you have such records for? Going how far back? What
> > statistical base do have for asserting that "the average life expectancy
> > was nowhere near 70"?
>
> > > In my experience the reality just isn't as you describe it - and there is
> > > no evidence to show that it was.
>
> > Your experience. What exactly is your experience? Are you 10,000 years old?
> > Or have you done a study of human remains and determined the age at which
> > the people died?
>
> And what evidence do you have?

Why don't you have a google search for evidence of human remains where an age of
death could be placed on the remains?

> I know what most of the comments about life expectancy of adults are based on
> - and they're wrong. If you know of research that shows otherwise then say so.

Why? You've made it clear that if the research doesn't agree with your pre-conceived
views then you'll find some excuse to dismiss it.

> In the meantime I'll rely on my genealogy studies that shows no real change
> over the last five centuries.

That's right. Rely on a handful of individuals to prove the average life expectancy
of billions of people over the past 250,000 years. It gives you the result you want.

--
Andy