[melling]

Except people lived to be older than that in the Bible

“Notice that Sarah lived to be 127 years (Gen. 23:1), Abraham lived to 175 years (Gen. 25:7), and Jacob lived 147 years before dying (Gen. 47:28).”

https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/t...

[ARandomerDude]

All of whom are clearly portrayed in Genesis as being supernaturally sustained in their old age as exceptions to the rule (similarly, Moses and Joshua).

[melling]

The Dragon in My Garage

http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf

[tomcatfish]

This isn't so much of someone trying to explain away bad data, it's just you doing a misreading of the story, which people have explained.

This isn't a debate about the object level "is this story true", this is people saying "that's not what the story is".