Pre-flood vapor canopy would have extended human lifetimes

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Related claims 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

In the pre-Flood earth, the vapor canopy, a translucent layer of water vapor above the atmosphere, filtered out radiation from space, decreasing mutations and drastically increasing life spans.

Source

• Vail, Isaac Newton, 1912. The Earth's Annular System, 4th ed. Pasadena: The Annular World Co.
• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 210-211.

Responses

1. Since heart disease in various forms is a major cause of death, it would be necessary to demonstrate that this is caused by "mutation" (presumably they actually mean DNA damage in autosomes) in order to eliminate this cause of death.
2. A controlled experiment on laboratory animals could be performed to determine if this mechanism could lead to 8X increase of mammalian lifespan, where is this experimental result?
3. The runaway greenhouse effect caused by such a canopy would have killed most animal life on earth, not increased lifespans.
4. Human lifespan is not significantly reduced by the mutated cells one picks up over one's lifetime. This is a Vacuous Explanation.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Just So Story (made up to fit the quote)

External Links

• Morton, Glenn R., 2000. The Demise and Fall of the Water Vapor Canopy: A Fallen Creationist Idea. [[1]]

Related claims

• There was no death or decay before the Fall
• Pre-flood vapor canopy would have made world Edenic
• It never rained before the flood
• Life is deteriorating

Acknowledgments