Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals: middle age

04-18-2012 • Washington Post

As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing realization. We are used to dismissing our fifth and sixth decades as a negative chapter in our lives, perhaps even a cause for crisis.

3 Comments in Response to Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals: middle age

Comment by Anonymous75

Entered on: 4/19/2012 11:07:01 PM

In Evolution, humans are better than other animals. This is not true. I know of some politicians that evolve backward. One politician wants American life back to the cave.

Comment by PureTrust

Entered on: 4/19/2012 12:43:49 PM

You got it. All this evolution stuff is a bunch of political bull, designed to drag people into the ideas of no god, no creation, nothing matters, laws are as you see fit, not as God sees fit.

Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 7 (NIV):

1 A good name is better than fine perfume,
   and the day of death better than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to a house of mourning
   than to go to a house of feasting,
   for death is the destiny of everyone;
   the living should take this to heart.
3 Frustration is better than laughter,
   because a sad face is good for the heart.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
   but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
5 It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person
   than to listen to the song of fools.
6 Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,
   so is the laughter of fools.
   This too is meaningless.

7 Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
   and a bribe corrupts the heart.

8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
   and patience is better than pride.
9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
   for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Comment by James17

Entered on: 4/19/2012 12:29:14 PM

Aging sucks when you notice that it is dragging at your face and other body parts. Just take a look through the site, 'Where are they now.' Young and beautiful only to age with sagging faces, extra fat where it will never disapear and graying hair that needs color or hair that just falls off your head and starts growing in your ears. And we have those that are saying you can live longer with their new product. Ha! Live longer in a body that doesn't want to work like it used to? Just do whatever it takes to make it to Heaven on the other side of death and out of this earthly body. From what I read in the bible and from what I have heard from people that have seen the other side, you will be in a new body around the age of 17 and without any blemishes and never again having to think about death.

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