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 Grey Templar wrote:
Well, in the Salamander books there was a marine from the Heresy era that they found still alive. He was however atrophied to the point where all they could do was give him the Emperor's Mercy and extract his geneseed.

If he had actually had any food over the 10,000 years he would have been fine.

Aren't the space wolves known for being long lived too? I mean Logan Grimnar is over 800 hundred years old. And his mentor is over a thousand?

I think its really a misnomer when people say some are longer lived than others.

There is not a single case of a marine dying of natural causes. So its really just how fortunate can one marine be before a bullet with his name on it kills him.

 Grey Templar wrote:
I think its really a misnomer when people say some are longer lived than others.

There is not a single case of a marine dying of natural causes. So its really just how fortunate can one marine be before a bullet with his name on it kills him.

Basically. If that salamander had been feed food and had a vegetable farm or food in general he would of survived.

Weather he would have been fit for combat is another story, but he would have been alive.

For all practical purposes, a marine might as well be immortal. They just never live long enough to prove otherwise.

Spetulhu wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:
I see... This is the kind of stuff that has me convinced we were created by God and not by evolution.

Platypus (and it's cousin the Echidna). No "intelligent designer" could have come up with those without doing enough drugs to screw over the rest of creation too.

Not to mention our own bodies have useless pieces that might have once had a function, like the appendix which does nothing for us except sometimes require emergency surgery when infected.

i'M SORRY, (srry, caps lock) but how the feth would a PLATYPUS evolve? That seems like the kind of thing where God was playin' a joke and he was like
"Hey, Jesus, come check this out. Buddha, put down the drink, come over here. Check out my newest creation!"
Then Jesus was like ," What the feth is that thing? That a beaver?"
And Buddha's like ," I've got it! He's a PLATYPUS!"
And then God falls over in a drunken stupor as Platypi start reproducing in the wild and become the newest Greek monstrosities.
However, this is not the place for a theological debate, so good day, sir.

 dusara217 wrote:

Spetulhu wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:
I see... This is the kind of stuff that has me convinced we were created by God and not by evolution.

Platypus (and it's cousin the Echidna). No "intelligent designer" could have come up with those without doing enough drugs to screw over the rest of creation too.

Not to mention our own bodies have useless pieces that might have once had a function, like the appendix which does nothing for us except sometimes require emergency surgery when infected.

i'M SORRY, (srry, caps lock) but how the feth would a PLATYPUS evolve? That seems like the kind of thing where God was playin' a joke and he was like
"Hey, Jesus, come check this out. Buddha, put down the drink, come over here. Check out my newest creation!"
Then Jesus was like ," What the feth is that thing? That a beaver?"
And Buddha's like ," I've got it! He's a PLATYPUS!"
And then God falls over in a drunken stupor as Platypi start reproducing in the wild and become the newest Greek monstrosities.
However, this is not the place for a theological debate, so good day, sir.

...The Platypus is perfectly adapted for its current niche. Its oddity results from being a very, very rare group of mammals descended from the times when mammals laid eggs, instead of having live births.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:

Spetulhu wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:
I see... This is the kind of stuff that has me convinced we were created by God and not by evolution.

Platypus (and it's cousin the Echidna). No "intelligent designer" could have come up with those without doing enough drugs to screw over the rest of creation too.

Not to mention our own bodies have useless pieces that might have once had a function, like the appendix which does nothing for us except sometimes require emergency surgery when infected.

i'M SORRY, (srry, caps lock) but how the feth would a PLATYPUS evolve? That seems like the kind of thing where God was playin' a joke and he was like
"Hey, Jesus, come check this out. Buddha, put down the drink, come over here. Check out my newest creation!"
Then Jesus was like ," What the feth is that thing? That a beaver?"
And Buddha's like ," I've got it! He's a PLATYPUS!"
And then God falls over in a drunken stupor as Platypi start reproducing in the wild and become the newest Greek monstrosities.
However, this is not the place for a theological debate, so good day, sir.

...The Platypus is perfectly adapted for its current niche. Its oddity results from being a very, very rare group of mammals descended from the times when mammals laid eggs, instead of having live births.

I maintain my current position, and no amount of logic will sway me. Plus, I have many other reasons to believe in Christ. Evolution may be true, but I don't think that human beings would be so lucky as to spawn on a world so perfectly balanced as ours. Anyways, good day. I am done with this conversation.