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Why did people live longer lifespans before the flood? 

After their fall from the garden of Eden, humans typically lived to be several hundred of years old, and very near 10 times are current lifespan. The oldest recorded age in the Bible was Methuselah's who is said to have lived 969 years (Gen 5:27). Noah himself was older than 500 when he gave birth to his three sons, and six hundred years old at the time of the flood (Gen5:32). In addition to destroying all life on earth, it is believed that another intended effect of the flood was to reduce the maximum human life expectancy to 120 years (Genesis6:3).

Following the flood, lifespans declined to what we have today, but developed over the course of several generations. For a period of time, people were able to live to similarly old ages following the flood as they did before. Noah lived another three hundred and fifty years, and didn't die until he was nine hundred and fifty years old (Gen9:28-29).

The changes in the earth's ecosystem caused by the flood probably forced human's to adapt in this way. It is probably a result of the relatively harsh post-flood ecosystem that we now live as long as we do. However, as the effect was not immediate, but declined gradually, it was probably the result of classic-evolution following the flood. Humans have become genetically disposed to the modern lifetime expectations which is 1/10th its original, or to a maximum of 120 years.

Gen 6:3-7 Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."