Animal Planet's show 'Predator's prey' says the elephant, and the elephant shrew, both live for a 800 million heart beats. Because they beat at different rates, their life spans are different. But according to this observation, humans should only live for 21 years. I guess there is something we need to take into account. Instead of assuming that the heart rate of humans is constant throughout their lives, which is not, we should also take into account the varying heart rate. To confirm the hypothesis that the total number of heart beats has the largest correlation with the life span of any being, we must know the heart rate versus time curves for the being under consideration. That will give us more confidence and better correlation values.
You know, I think it has to do with the fact that absent modern medicine/technology, humans do only live for about 27 years, at best.
ReplyDeleteBtw, saw you on Makarios' blog. He's not the best source for knowledge about atheists. There are lots of blogs I could recommend to you, but maybe you'd like to look at the SMRT board.
Makarios and I have a thing going on. I pick on him, he picks on me- all very civilly, mind you. He's not a bad guy, he just has very odd ideas about atheists.
ReplyDeleteI just shuddered to think that you might be forming your opinions of atheists from what Makarios says about us. It would be like me forming an opinion about Indians based on what some guy whose job was outsourced to India had to say about Indians.