I'll note something one of my Witness friends told me ...
We use but 10% of our brains ... the other 90% would seem ideally suited to an existence much longer than our current limit.
As well, one example of how genes don't necessarily have to dictate decay and then death is that of sea turtles. They don't "age", therefore, there's no reason they would ever have to die, except for disease or accident.
To the inevitable question of "wouldn't the earth become too crowded", lol, I would think that God had a plan for that. There are several in the OT, Enoch being one, who did not "die" a physical death, instead simply being taken up. I would think the original plan included a progression of sorts as man aged and wisened, to the "next level" so to speak. Even in the New Testament it speaks of the saints, whom I would presume are watching us at this very moment ... not to be confused with most of the rest of us for whom the grave awaits.
The problem I have with straying too far from the words of the Bible on this one, aside from it proving itself over and over again in other contexts, is that we face quite a dilemma of having to read metaphor into a whole lot of it if we take this approach. I'm not sure that's warranted in this case.
Something to consider.
Dave
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