Comment by euroderf

In the 60s I read a (crackpot?) theory that the Old Testament was not kidding when it says people lived hundreds of years, and that a sudden influx of cosmic rays could explain a nexus of Biblical events - the dispersion of a persistent global cloud cover that had existed until then, the rain & flooding event that Noah rode out, and the subsequent reduction (thanks for nothin', cosmic rays) in human lifetimes.