pygmy
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The last claim about human population has been debunked many times over
based primarily on such a high growth rate of 0.5 %.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB620.html
Response:
This claim assumes that the population growth rate was always constant, which is a false assumption. Wars and plagues would have caused populations to drop from time to time. In particular, population sizes before agriculture would have been severely limited and would have had an average population growth of zero for any number of years.
There is no particular reason to choose a population growth rate of 0.5 percent for the calculation. The population growth from 1000 to 1800 has been closer to 0.1227 percent per year (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1984). At that rate, the population would have grown to its present size from the eight Flood survivors in 16,660 years.
The other 2 claims I'll look at when I have time , however I know it will be a waste of time.
Check out this nonsense and my reply :
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,284152.msg2056912.html#msg2056912
based primarily on such a high growth rate of 0.5 %.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB620.html
Response:
This claim assumes that the population growth rate was always constant, which is a false assumption. Wars and plagues would have caused populations to drop from time to time. In particular, population sizes before agriculture would have been severely limited and would have had an average population growth of zero for any number of years.
There is no particular reason to choose a population growth rate of 0.5 percent for the calculation. The population growth from 1000 to 1800 has been closer to 0.1227 percent per year (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1984). At that rate, the population would have grown to its present size from the eight Flood survivors in 16,660 years.
The other 2 claims I'll look at when I have time , however I know it will be a waste of time.
Check out this nonsense and my reply :
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,284152.msg2056912.html#msg2056912