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Old 11-17-2010, 11:44 AM
 
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How do you justify the current population level of the world, from only 8 people ~4000 years ago?
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Old 11-17-2010, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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How do you justify the current population level of the world, from only 8 people ~4000 years ago?
This thread might not go too far.

Do people who take the bible literally even know what the internet is and would they even be able to reply?
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Old 11-17-2010, 12:25 PM
 
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How do you justify the current population level of the world, from only 8 people ~4000 years ago?

ask campbell....ron wyatt Phd,M.A,M.S.,B.A.,J.D,M.D. already touched on this subject
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Old 11-17-2010, 01:06 PM
 
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great topic!
kinda hard to pend down exactly all the bottlenecks man-kind has re-evovled from but i do not believe man-kind has suffered a global bottle-necking within the last 4,000 years.
there's records of a volcanic winter that occurred about 73,000 years ago. i have'nt really been able to find anything more recent. i'am going to keep searching the topic.
also, some believe the sphinx exhibits gross water damage giving some creedance to Noah's flood, but experts have estimated that the flood would have had to have occurred 10-12,000 years ago. so still no banana.
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Old 11-17-2010, 01:13 PM
 
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The problem is that the numbers just don't work out. Between 1000 and 1800-ish, the world's population growth was about .123%. At that rate, the population would have grown to its present size from the eight Flood survivors in 16,660 years. So...not for many thousands of years yet.

Even if we up that to a very generous 0.5%, and ignore the fact that pop growth isn't constant, and ignore deaths from war, famine, plague, natural disaster, etc...even then, there still wouldn't have been more than a dozen or so people around to build the pyramids at Giza; Moses would have only had about 750 people to lead out of Egypt (the entire world's population) and Xerxes army of 2.6 million...well, there would only have been about 90,000 people on the whole planet at that point in time.

The numbers just don't add up, even giving them a grotesquely inflated advantage.
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Old 11-17-2010, 03:39 PM
 
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Wouldnt everyone be jewish if the flood killed everyone else but noah and his family. I think that different races are proof enough that the flood didnt happen.

Its been awhile since a read genesis , maybe I missed something
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Old 11-17-2010, 04:57 PM
 
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The problem is that the numbers just don't work out. Between 1000 and 1800-ish, the world's population growth was about .123%. At that rate, the population would have grown to its present size from the eight Flood survivors in 16,660 years. So...not for many thousands of years yet.

Even if we up that to a very generous 0.5%, and ignore the fact that pop growth isn't constant, and ignore deaths from war, famine, plague, natural disaster, etc...even then, there still wouldn't have been more than a dozen or so people around to build the pyramids at Giza; Moses would have only had about 750 people to lead out of Egypt (the entire world's population) and Xerxes army of 2.6 million...well, there would only have been about 90,000 people on the whole planet at that point in time.

The numbers just don't add up, even giving them a grotesquely inflated advantage.

Look mercury....people back then lived on average 800 years....so they porked a lot...and had lots of kids. And post eden lifespans were also blessed with much less death from things as we see later....sheesh what is wrong with you?
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Old 11-17-2010, 06:44 PM
 
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How do you justify the current population level of the world, from only 8 people ~4000 years ago?
Incest, lots and lots of incest.
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Old 11-17-2010, 06:45 PM
 
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Look mercury....people back then lived on average 800 years....so they porked a lot...and had lots of kids. And post eden lifespans were also blessed with much less death from things as we see later....sheesh what is wrong with you?
Which immediately bring the thought to mind "do muslims call it 'porking'"
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Old 11-17-2010, 07:16 PM
 
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Wouldnt everyone be jewish if the flood killed everyone else but noah and his family. I think that different races are proof enough that the flood didnt happen.

Its been awhile since a read genesis , maybe I missed something

Why? Noah wasn't Jewish.
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