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| 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 7:52pm On Dec 23, 2015 |
Very little is known about the people who lived before the Great Flood. However, no archaelogical discoveries ve been made which would reveal additional information about this lost society. Therefore, Scripture is all we ve to rely on. Of the many issues concerning the flood, a common question that has often been asked is: What was the World Population when the flood occured? Most people ve been taught that the population might ve been in tens to hundreds of millions. Using an electronic spreadsheet(mathcad), an analysis was made by scholars of the effects of population size using the numerical values provided in the book of Genesis for age of childbirth, number of children per family and life-span. The study was based upon atime span of 1656 years, begining with the creation of Adam and extending to the time of the Great Flood occurred. Now their lifespan was approximately 900years. Age of childbirth was 65 to 100yrs and number of children was 6 to 7 children. Using the mathcad formula the scholars arrived at an estimation that placed the population of the world at 5 to 17 billion calculating 20 to 18 generations from Adam to the Flood in 1656. Well as for me, I suspect the World's Population was 6 Billion before the Flood. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Blakjewelry(m): 8:41pm On Dec 23, 2015 |
The world population wasn't up to a billion before the flood, the world population clocked one billion for the first time after the industrial revolution. Besides there is no archeological evidence proving of a global flood. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:20pm On Dec 23, 2015 |
Blakjewelry:clap for urself becos the words of Blackjewelry is always right. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by tpiar: 2:42am On Dec 24, 2015 |
no idea. however, Adam was either still alive or had just passed away during that time. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by tpiar: 2:48am On Dec 24, 2015 |
number of children was 6 to 7 childrenthere's actually no accurate way of calculating the number of children. Girls were not mentioned, for example, and all male offspring. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:00am On Dec 24, 2015 |
tpiar:Nope! Adam had long died becos from the time of Adam to the Flood is 1656 years and Adam lived and died at the age of 930 years(Gen 5:5) |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:05am On Dec 24, 2015 |
tpiar:yea that's right. Some kids weren't mentioned in the bible that's why the scholars made use of the numbers that were mentioned as an approximation. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by tpiar: 2:02pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:Ok, will check that. I've posted something on this before and it might have been Seth. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 2:22pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
tpiar:Ok |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by CoolUsername: 2:40pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
6 billion people. Only one owned a boat. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 2:51pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
[quote author=CoolUsername post=41305233]6 billion people. Only one owned a boat.[/quoteChai! This atheist is around. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Blakjewelry(m): 4:18pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:I raised a point prove me wrong. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 4:29pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Blakjewelry:Ok. I know humanists and atheists love arguments. You said the worlds population clocked 1billion during the industrial revolution. Now, the industrial revolution occurred about 300 yrs ago. That means the worlds population jumped 4rm 1billion to 6billion in less than 300yrs? Can't u see that the 6billion population before the Great Flood is a possibility? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by itstpia8: 6:11pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Blakjewelry(m): 6:23pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:First of all you open this thread so that others can have their say, so I will say this is more of a debate than argument. Now back to the topic, the world has never in history experience the kinda population explosion we are experiencing now. In the time past there are a lot of factors that keeps the human population in check. 1. Some of these include disease and lack of advance health care system. 2. War and infighting among tribal clans. Before the merger of local tribes to form nation and country, there was all war between local clans and of their core weapon is to cut of every male child of their rival, even some animals do practice that today. 3. Stricter sex rule. Before advent of the modern day freedom choice rule, women of old are bind to these strict rules that going against it means death or being punish. Also if you are wondering how within two to three hundred years the human population could skyrocket, take Nigeria as a case study. Nigeria population according to the 1991 census is around 89 million but it above 170 million, just within a period of about 14 years. Now the population of Nigeria didn't decline at any point but once you remove the limiting factor watch population skyrocket except some measure is taken. The ever increasing human population is some of the reasons some animals are going extinct because we expanding and encroaching into there natural habitat |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by CoolUsername: 7:08pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
itstpia8:How did the kangaroos make it back to Australia? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by tpiar: 7:21pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Google it? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Ranchhoddas: 8:13pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
tpiar:Is google now the substitute for your sense? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Nobody: 8:30pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:You said atheist like it spells badluck, aren't you supposed to love your neighbour as yourself? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by tpiar: 8:42pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Ranchhoddas:Yes. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:07pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Blakjewelry:By study and revelation 4rm God let me enlighten u a little about the world b4 the Great Flood. Before the flood men and women were mating without control, women were even mating with fallen angels(gods), men lived longer years(robust immune system), there was population explosion which also came with violence, there was advance science and technological advancement introduced by the evil fallen angels etc. Jesus said before the departure of his body(The Church) at the rapture, the earth will look exactly like the earth during Noahs time. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:18pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
sylvalord:I love my neighbours very much sir but the problem I ve with atheists is that they are keeping malice with God. They pretend by saying God does not exist yet they won't stop talking about him. How can u say God does not exist and yet burn with hatred in ur speech and typings about him?? |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Nobody: 9:36pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:And that gives you the leverage to spite them? It is obvious you do not comprehend the atheist's standpoint. Atheists do not hate or have any problem with god as there is no god and you cannot hate that which does not exist. Rather, atheists have issues with that violent, bloodthirsty, attention seeking bigot that some people have created and forced into the mind of the populace. The atheists attack this false mythical creature and its creators in order to show people its fakeness and emancipate people from mental slavery. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 9:50pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
sylvalord:make I hear word joor. Na so u love us reach? The truth is that u won't pay much attention to a non-existent entity with so much emotion. Atheist are just angry with God and that is the truth no matter how u defend it. |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Oluwaseytiano(m): 9:50pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Hmmmmm, just hear to learn. PLs atheists don't spoil everything with your annoying logic |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Nobody: 9:53pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
jared007:#sigh |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by Blakjewelry(m): 1:03am On Dec 25, 2015 |
jared007:LOL you need a lot of researching, first do you know that the ancient Kingdom of Mesopothamia of which Abram originated from has their own creation story which predate the Bible book of Genesis, similar but different references. Now back to issue of discuss, the reason I use Nigeria as an example is to show you that the the world population experience an exponential growth in recent times. Going by the fast rate of population growth in recent times, if this were to be so from the beginning then am afraid we would have clock over 100 billion by now. Just do a quick research on when China cross the one billion mark and they over 2 billion today in less than 30 years and India is also growing like a wildfire. Now if you can factor this into your maths you will observe that from the flood until now the world population would have gone above 10 trillion. The only thing keeping population in check is some of the things I mention before. Besides if you are student of history you must come across them Let me give you a classical example, without the combined effort of world health body do you know what damage could hiv, bird flu, and the more recent ebola cause to the human race? Or maybe you can do a little research about the Spanish flu |
| Re: 6 Billion World Population Before Noah's Flood? by jared007(op): 2:30am On Dec 25, 2015 |
Blakjewelry:u made a good explanation but I don't believe its only recently the worlds population exploded. It happened b4 the flood(remember nephilims were part of this population). God then reduced the life-span of man, disease and wars followed. Of a truth mankind would ve gotten to probably a trillion by now since the Great Flood but there ve been constant conspiracies against geometric progression of our population growth. |
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