Also, the ridiculous number of people who would inhabit earth these days if the universe was more than 6,000 years old... For example, the population of the United States has doubled over the last 50 or so years... At a rate of doubling every 50 years, the world would go from 2 people to 8 billion people... in a mere 1600 years!! Can you IMAGINE if man had been around for 2 million years? Or even half that? Or even half of half? It's unfathomable. Absolutely unfathomable.
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Except that people used to die at much much younger ages, totally throwing off your little experiment in population statistics. And there were plagues, and many more babies died, and women died in childbirth...
So you're basing the world population growth on the selective growth of only 1/16th of the world population. Yeah, that'll provide you with accurate result.
You really are as dumb as shit.
Natural selection, wars, and human on human atrocities..if you are going to start something, please think it all the way through.
Yep, because if the population has doubled in the last 50 years, it must have doubled EVERY 50 years since the first two people were poofed into existence. After all, there is no way for the rate of population growth to change...
A thousand years ago you were lucky to raise one child to adulthood, to just replace youself. Here's the real kicker, he may never breed successfully, his wife could die while pregnant and an impacted wisdom tooth infects his skull and he dies at 27. We have population and birth records from only 150 years ago where still births were higher and disease took out many more.
May I also point out that even by your maths, 6000 years would be way too much time. Use a calculator and take 2 to the 120th power because thats what a doubling every 50 years since Adam and Eve would add up to.
In just 3000 years you would have 1,152,921,504,606,847,000 people. I couldn't find an online calculator to go to 120...does not compute lol.
Up until the turn of the 20th century, people only lived to about 30-50 years of age, and the infant mortality rate was somewhere between 20 and 50 percent.
Germ theory and the industrial revolution have helped us to live longer and healtier lives. That's why populations have exploded over the last 50 years or so.
So, the concept of a population being more or less steady due to it's limited food source is "unfathomable."
Hint: When someone says "overpopulated," they don't mean people don't have enough space. They mean people don't have enough food.
Way to fail exponentials.
That's what happens in 1600 years. How about 6000 years, little YEC?
By the way, real data:
Year - Population of Europe (mln)
In the same period China fluctuated between 60 and 150 million, though with different peaks and falls.
Roman Empire (200 a.d.): +-90 million
Confused?
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