Did Homo Erectus build the Tower of Babel?

You're kidding coyote, right? Try P(t)=Ce^kt and see how long it takes to repopulate the world. 2 million years is nonsensical.Also a quick calculation will show that a human dragging his feet could walk around the world in a couple of years. It's the evos that claim the ridiculous times required for things to change, humans in particular are excellent adaptive creatures. Eves' no doubt!Edited by LucyTheApe, : No reason given.Edited by LucyTheApe, : No reason given.

You would want to hope so or else your radio dating is wrong.P(t)=Ce^kt is a general solution for any exponential growth model where the amount present is determined by the rate of change.
y' = y For a specific solution, let's be rather conservative.At P(0)= 8 that is, when t=0 there is Noah, his misses, his three sons and their wives, so..
8 = Ce^kt = Ce⁰ = C
So our equation becomes;
P(t)= 8e^kt
Say that Noah and his Misses didn't contribute any further to the population. In the next 20 years Noah and his Misses dies. Each of his sons and daughter in laws have 4 children each couple, live for another 20 years and die. So 20 years on we have a population of 4*3=12 people (not including the parents). Assuming that there are 6 males and 6 females we have 6 mating pairs. They each have 4 children per pair and die within another 20 years, and so on.So after 20 years we have a population of 12. We can use this fact to find the proportionality factor k from P(20)=12 12 = 8e^20k

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ln(1.5)=20k

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0.4055/20 = k = 0.02027

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So now we have a specific solution to our problem;

P(t) = 8e^0.02027t
Now what about at P(1000), that is, a thousand years later?
P(t) = 8e^0.02027*1000 = 8e^20.27

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= 5 084 393 629 5 Billion in a thousand years!Now think how ridiculous millions of years sounds!Edited by LucyTheApe, : No reason given.

Then so is your radio dating. Exactly the same model. Of course when bacteria start poisoning each other and run out of food, they die off.Humans move on.

The problem is with my initial assumptions. Don't blame me if you don't like the maths, blame Newton and Leibniz.Lets say that there are only 9 people after 20 years, that's only one additional person.After a thousand years there is 3200, after 5000 years there is 85 491 796 652 195 or 85 Trillion.Both you and Coyote are missing the point; although at least you're beginning to see the consequences of dealing with vast quantities of time, it blows out.The fact is growth is exponential. Using millions of years is just plain crap, can't you see that?

I'm using EXACTLY the same maths you use to date rocks.If my maths is flawed then so is yours.Humans aren't all that selective, they cover the entire world, from the north pole to the south pole and everywhere in between. They live on the mountains and on the sea, in the deserts and on ice.We make more food than we need, our population has increased 375% in the last 100 years. To suggest that humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years just doesn't make sense.If there were things that looked like humans, they would have to have been restricted to small geographic locations and been extremely stupid; they weren't human.Edited by LucyTheApe, : typo

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There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.
Pascal

NO, an assumed rate, calculated over a long time. We use radio active decay to try simulate randomness, it's not constant, it is extremely difficult to predict. Just like the growth of human population, you don't know who is going to get pregnant next, but observed over time it seems constant.When the rabbit population increases the foxes get fat, get happy, have plenty of time to flirt with other foxes, one thing leads to another and the fox population increases, then they eat all the rabbits. The rabbit population dies out and so do the foxes. Then it all starts again.If the fly population increases the birds get fat, get horny, have more birds, eat more flies, flies die out, birds die out....Remember when that lunatic Mao Zedong had all the sparrows killed because they had eaten the grain that the farmers couldn't protect because they were too busy following orders collecting steel. What followed? A famine because the insects had nothing to eat them so they run a mock.Humans have SELF DETERMINATION we do what we want, and go where we want without constraint, excepting a social one, we are top of the chain.

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There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.
Pascal

By Homo Erectus do you mean what was,”Discovered by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya (Brown et al.1985; Leakey and Lewin, 1992; Walker and Leakey, 1993).”source ?Is it human? A skeleton constructed form a collection of bones selected from a lake over ten years? By Leaky? It's human alright, human creativity. I wasn't there, I'll leave the speculation up to the pseudo-scientists and speculators. Speculators aren't supposed to taken seriously, they're there for entertainment. Extinct! Am I? Oh no!
Semi erect? he would say that. Maths, creation science?      Oh, that's right, you guys have you own method of establishing patterns.

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There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.
Pascal

I raised the growth model in response to Coyotes' claim that there wasn't enough time to repopulate the world since the flood. And then I tried to explain myself by making calculations based on figures I pulled out of my head, that I thought reasonable. You are right in saying the model isn't perfect. I never claimed it was. It's a general model. We could tinker at the edges but we will still have exponential growth. That's just the way it is.Now you and bluegenes talk about disease and big scary foxes decimating the population. What fox bluegenes? Rex?.If you wipe out half the population of the world today, you will only set the growth back 50 years. Now can you see my point. If you don't then that's bad luck because this is not the topic of discussion and I'm not wasting any more time trying to convince you guys of the blatantly obvious. Edited by LucyTheApe, : forgot to sign it.

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There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.
Pascal

Right you are Coyote, once a limit is reached the population begins to decline.Just like the flies, foxes and rabbits, but not like the humans. Nothing stops us humans, nothing save the Almighty.Like I said, you can tinker at the edges but it's still exponential growth.

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There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything.
Pascal

If you want to discuss this further, open a new topic.