The creationists say they’ve got another argument, human population growth rate. You know, I mean how long does it take for monkeys to become men and men to fill up the whole world? Takes a long long time right, a million years or more. You know Leaky goes down digging around in the big ditch down there in Kenya and he comes up with a couple of fragments of bone, and he says this here was a pre human monkey man, and he says that he dated it by radiocarbon and it’s a million years old.
Okay, let’s look at that. If you take the present rate of population growth. We find out that the human race is increasing right now even as we speak at about 2% per year and They have an average of 3.6 children in the family. Now these population growth weight formulas are developed by taking into account not only how many kids to the average family what the growth rate estimate is, but they also consider how long the parents live whether it’s 70 years a hundred years or 35 years or whatever, also factors like famines, plagues, wars, and technological advancements that caused historical fluctuations and plateaus. Well, if you factor all of this into a formula you can calculate just by changing the numbers How this would produce different growth rates and amounts of people and so forth Now remember the present growth rate of the human race is 2% with an average of 3.6 children per couple. Now that’s unrealistic historically because it reflects a growth rate in a century where we have solved a huge chunk of the food problem of this world We have solved a huge chunk of medical problems People can now live much longer than they ever lived before on an average. So we have an unrealistically high growth rate of 2% that we know cannot be.
Well, let’s just start from the biblical perspective. Let’s go back to when we had eight people surviving the flood. Noah, his three sons and their wives, eight people. That was about 4,000 years ago give or take a couple of centuries just to keep it in round numbers. What is the growth rate? You would have to have to produce about three to four billion people in The 20th century starting 4,000 years ago with eight folks Somebody say they’d have to work mighty hard. Not really, here’s what the figures indicate are needed to produce the present-day population from eight people 4,000 years ago and this allows for all the wars, all the famines, all the pestilences, and so on, because we’re dealing in averages see and averages is the sum of the whole. So we’ve got all the all these different diverse cases factored in to the numbers we’re using. All right, how many people would it take having how many kids you’d have to have a population growth rate of one half of a percent per year? Now what’s one half of a percent of eight people it’s point zero four people. All those eight people had to have every year was just point zero four of a baby. That’s all it would take it eventually add up to all of us. Now obviously in the early stages if you’re having two and a half your percentage rate is going to be Astronomical compared to a half a percent But after a while when you got a hundred million people and everybody having two and a half it levels back out to your normal average.
And that’s why it’s an average. So all it takes is one half of a percent population increase to produce this whole planet full of people that we have right now starting with eight people 4,000 years ago. Now I ask you is the Bible position and the Bible doctrine reasonable in the light of those figures? If the present population growth rate is two percent and the present number of children per family is three point six, is it reasonable to suppose one half a percent and two point two? Sure, that’s growing one fourth as fast with two-thirds as many kids, and it would produce the whole planet we got now. See Christians don’t have any problem with population growth figures. No problem at all.
But what about old Dr. Leakey down there that dug up his little prehuman super intelligent chimpanzee or whatever it was and said this was the missing link. What about if several of them started out having babies a million years ago? How many kids would they have now? Well, let’s use that same ratio. Let’s use a half a percent. That’s reasonable compared to two percent growth rate. Let’s use two and a half kids. That’s reasonable compared to a growth rate now of three and a half. In one million years if you plugged in a one and a half percent growth rate for the human population with two and a half kids per family, how many folks would you have today? If the evolutionists are right… you’re ready for this one… somewhere around ten to the 100th power!
What does that mean? Well, if you took ten and multiplied it times ten that’s the same thing as ten times itself twice So that’s ten to the second power or 100. Therefore ten to the 100th power would be ten followed by 100 zeros! You say hey, that’s a that’s a big number, you bet it’s a big number! How big is it? The estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is around 10^80, still many orders of magnitude smaller than 10^100. The population of the world is about 8 Billion, so you would need to multiply the current population by itself 31 times to get a number close to 10^100. Talk about crowded… that is a lot of bodies! Considering there is approximately 1,041,152,000,000,000 square feet of total surface area (land and water) in the world (10^15) , the world could not hold anywhere near that many people… even if you gave every single person an entire 1 square inch to stand on!
So, what do you think… Evolution or Creation?
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