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Originally Posted by silverdoctor
Institute for creation research? I find it interesting that people question the ideal of long term evolution. First life on earth is estimated to have shown up less than 4 billion years ago, and even then, it definitely wasn't wasn't sentient.
But, lets look at the biblical explanation of life on earth. Some 6000 years ago, Adam and Eve had 2 sons by the name of Cain and Abel. So all life on earth came from the genetics of 2 people. Some 7.5 billion people later - is it possible to have that population of people on the planet in that short of timeframe. Now creationists claim that it is - but one needs to take into account the disasters of the bible. The great flood and Noahs ark for example - some claim doing their own math through ages of individuals in the bible that the flood occurred around 2300 BC and wiped out most life on the planet. Now take into account the millions of people that were killed by disease over the centuries. So in the span of 4300 years - through multiple disasters, people wiped out, how did we get to this population?
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https://www.thoughtco.com/current-wo...lation-1435270
From year one to 2083 AD (2083 years) world population has grown by 10,000,000,000 (10 billion)
Year/Population
1/200 million
1000/275 million
1500/450 million
1650/500 million
1750/700 million
1804/1 billion
1850/1.2 billion
1900/1.6 billion
1927/2 billion
1950/2.55 billion
1955/2.8 billion
1960/3 billion
1965/3.3 billion
1970/3.7 billion
1975/4 billion
1980/4.5 billion
1985/4.85 billion
1990/5.3 billion
1995/5.7 billion
1999/6 billion
2006/6.5 billion
2009/6.8 billion
2011/7 billion
2025/8 billion
2043/9 billion
2083/10 billion