Inerrancy of the Bible 2

1) Brian, please don't quote authors who aren't mathematicians... 70 people would only produce about 10,000 in 400 years? Is this guy serious? His roughly 10% growth rate would indicate a doubling period of 7 years under the Rule of 70 for exponential growth... But this involves people, not money, so let's be conservative and assume the original 70 people could only make 35 couples most... If each couple waited an average of 20 years to have kids and each couple averaged a 4 kid survival rate. You'd be looking at a population over 10,000,000 (not 10,000) in less then 400 years...The other problem your author runs into is the fact that the Sinai, as I mentioned previously, was not always a sandy wasteland paradise. Applying today's population assumptions to it is flat wrong (for example, Egypt didn't have 5.5 million land mines in the Sinai back during Exodus)A better error would be how 3,000,000 people got lost for 40 years