Questions answered from someone called Nazareth in a chat room! These topics to discuss are for those who are LDS (Mormons) or those who study our teachings and will give insight in congruence to our doctrine: 1. Age difference before and after the flood - What happened? After the flood Noah and his family had to eat meat from CLEAN animals and the plants were killed off. It's in The books of Jasher and Jubilee's. Jesus makes a reference to this in the Essence gospel of peace where he explains how we today can live as long... so short answer is because of sin. When we are born, our cells have a set amount of times they can be split before we die, could it then be possible that the Flood caused the environment to change this? Also, when an animal is cloned, the animal is born with the same status of cell division as the original lamb - causing both to die around the same time. Could this support the theory? This is false sciences: Jesus was explaining in the New Testament that ...