Which view of Genesis 1-11 do you favor and why?

[LM77 (Liam Maguire)]

Hey Patrick, you may be interested to know that the reported decay curve in Genesis was discussed quite rigorously back in Sept '19. The thread was a long one. As a result, the link below takes you to the point where the discussion begins to focus on the statistics of the curve itself:

Ages of Patriarchs

Here’s figure 3, the key chart in that paper: [patriarchs-curve] The most impressive part of the curve is its tails. The middle is a bit of a mess into which all sorts of different curves could fit, but the initial downward slope and final near-horizontal tail really do fit well. There even seems to be symmetry in that the two tails both have just a few data points rather than the cluster of points in the middle. But really, there shouldn’t be symmetry here. The few points in the downward sl…

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