[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

I really don't know what to make of this. There are plenty of people hundreds of years old in the Old Testement, but that's because God wanted them old, not some scientist. These super-old people will be abdomonations, like homosexuals, only ten times as experienced at sinning. I wonder if the psychologists will use this to raise their "age of consent" to 180 years?

And why are they preparing for 800 years in the future, when the Rapture is obviously coming this year? Stupid scientists.

Meddling Scientists play god, making people live to 800 years old!

There is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold -- and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans. It involves tinkering with two genes, and cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in Ecuador.

According to an announcement from PLoS Genetics:

Researchers have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects. The basic but important discovery, achieved through a combination of dietary and genetic changes, brings scientists closer to controlling the survival and health of the unit of all living systems: the cell. "We're setting the foundation for reprogramming healthy life," says study leader Valter Longo of the University of Southern California.

Longo's group put baker's yeast on a calorie-restricted diet and knocked out two genes - RAS2 and SCH9 - that promote aging in yeast and cancer in humans.

"We got a 10-fold life span extension that is, I think, the longest one that has ever been achieved in any organism," Longo says. Normal yeast organisms live about a week.

"I would say 10-fold is pretty significant," says Anna McCormick, chief of the genetics and cell biology branch at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Longo's program officer. The NIA funds such research in the hope of extending healthy life span in humans through the development of drugs that mimic the life-prolonging techniques used by Longo and others, McCormick adds.

Baker's yeast is one of the most studied and best understood organisms at the molecular and genetic level. Remarkably, in light of its simplicity, yeast has led to the discovery of some of the most important genes and pathways regulating aging and disease in mice and other mammals.

Longo's group next plans to further investigate life span extension in mice. The group is already studying a human population in Ecuador with mutations analogous to those described in yeast.

"People with two copies of the mutations have very small stature and other defects," Longo says. "We are now identifying the relatives with only one copy of the mutation, who are apparently normal. We hope that they will show a reduced incidence of diseases and an extended life span."

Longo cautions that, as in the Ecuador case, longevity mutations tend to come with severe growth deficits and other health problems. Finding drugs to extend the human life span without side effects will not be easy.

[SadSightSeer]

Scientist are LIERS and you should not believe any of their debaucheries. Also, its well known amongst the true worshippers of God that there are NO such things as "bacteries" or whatever hellish things they come up with!! On these forums you can find a very well written guide as to whom you can trust and whom not to for they will lead you deep into the PITS OF HELL!!!

Amen!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by SadSightSeer

Amen!

Amen.

BTW What's with your signature? It looks like some sort of spell - you might frighten some of the more delicate ladies who read this forum.

[SadSightSeer]

As I looked more carefully, I noticed that yourself, brother Jeb, has written that splendid guide to whom to believe and whom not to believe so now I'm pretty confused because you seem to take that article serious when you believe in such things as "genes" and "bacterias".
Is it something wrong going on with you that you need to confess to the community?

As for the link that explains why Jesus loves Republicans because they massacred 72000 nonchristians so far in Iraq, I have to congratulate you for a great campaign! http://www.geocities.com/gwbushyouth/staythecourse.html

Stay the course!

[SadSightSeer]

Oh, you have my apologies for my last asumptions adressed to you, apparently I got carried away by anger that someone dares to play God

The signature is quite harmless actually. I live in Romania and the signature is written in romanian and it spells something like:

"If you are romanians I announce you that on these forum boards you are not alone. All my posts are adressed to you. Take them into consideration. With this ocasion I greet all the romanians in America." See, no pun intended

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Originally Posted by SadSightSeer

Oh, you have my apologies for my last asumptions adressed to you, apparently I got carried away by anger that someone dares to play God

The signature is quite harmless actually. I live in Romania and the signature is written in romanian and it spells something like:

"If you are romanians I announce you that on these forum boards you are not alone. All my posts are adressed to you. Take them into consideration. With this ocasion I greet all the romanians in America." See, no pun intended

Please change it. We do not allow unsaved foreign trash to post demonic code on our forums. We speak only the language favored by Jesus: American.

Aren't you Romanis plagued by vampires over there? You aren't one I hope.

I've always assumed that vampires are mostly just some perverted cult of joos, myself.

[SadSightSeer]

Yes, indeed, we are plagued by vampires over here especially now that the long winter nights are upon us. So we, the normal folks that got spared by Jesus Christ word, have to seclude ourselves from the open air as soon as the sun sets in order not to be subjected to their hellish appearance and gruesome rituals.

God help us! The terror!

I will comply with your kind words and keep my "unsaved foreign trash" language for my own ilk which is too uncivilised to speak American. Thank you.

[Bobby-Joe]

The reason scientist want to extend human lifetimes it two fold; it lets them put of their just damnation for their Darwinist ways that much longer, secondly longer lives means a more chances to sin thus filling up hell with more damned. Science is pure evil and good Christians want to send people home to Jesus the first chance they get.

[garrik]

Teaching people to hate themselves eh?

Science interesting stuff.

[bluefire]

It would make us able to theoretically live to 800 years old but you'd get hit by a car sooner or later. Or a bus. Maybe a plane. Lol. A friend was telling me about some famous person who died tragically. They got hit by a boat.

[BiCurious Atheist]

Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel

Please change it. We do not allow unsaved foreign trash to post demonic code on our forums. We speak only the language favored by Jesus: American.

Aren't you Romanis plagued by vampires over there? You aren't one I hope.

I've always assumed that vampires are mostly just some perverted cult of joos, myself.

I hope you realize American isn't really a language. I think you're referring to English, which is native to England and is spoken in America from the days in which the British colonised America.

Even then, Where in the bible does it say Jesus favors "American" (English) over other languages?

[FalseScience]

Originally Posted by Bobby-Joe

The reason scientist want to extend human lifetimes it two fold; it lets them put of their just damnation for their Darwinist ways that much longer, secondly longer lives means a more chances to sin thus filling up hell with more damned. Science is pure evil and good Christians want to send people home to Jesus the first chance they get.

Then why aren't Christians killing each other by the millions? If you want to get to heaven faster you should want to kill you family. And shouldn't you want to kill you babies with abortion because then they go to heaven. You must really not believe otherwise you would be trying to get yourself killed.

[Cranky Old Man]

Originally Posted by TrueScience

Then why aren't Christians killing each other by the millions? If you want to get to heaven faster you should want to kill you family. And shouldn't you want to kill you babies with abortion because then they go to heaven. You must really not believe otherwise you would be trying to get yourself killed.

Because God in His infinite wisdom does not allow that.

Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."

[Bobby-Joe]

Originally Posted by BiCurious Atheist

blah, blah I hate America because I hate god, blah!

Why do you hate Freedom friend?