According to Crazy Diamond, natural disasters, etc have never stopped the growth of global population. It has been calculated that from the time of the Noahic flood to the present that the population of the world would be about right.
I have quoted myself from
Message 16 since it was deemed off topic in that thread.
Buzsaw writes:
CrazyDiamond7 writes:
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The real fact is that regardless of disease, natural disasters, wars and famine, human population has never stopped growing. .
That is assuming there was no Biblical Noahic flood.
Henry Morris , in his book, the
Bible Has The Answer. cites why the world population is about right, assuming Josephus's and Ussher's Noahic flood timeline.
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According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Irish archbishop and chronologist James Ussher, Bible historians and most conservative Christian scholars, the Flood of Noah's time occurred between 2500 BC and 2300 BC.
An interesting area of support for the biblical date comes from the study of population statistics. Dr. Henry Morris asked in his book The Bible Has the Answer whether it was more reasonable to think that the present world population came from the few people on Noah's Ark 4300 years ago, or the first dawn man a million or more years ago:
The present rate of population increase in the world is more than two per cent per year, and the population is now over four billion. [This figure was correct when Dr. Morris wrote this. The figure is now much higher. Creation Tips editor.] However, the average rate would only have to be one half of one per cent per year to produce the present world population in 4,300 years.
........the supposed million-year history of man on the earth is completely absurd, whereas the Biblical chronology is perfectly reasonable.........
ABE: Assuming the Noahic flood, the world's population roughly 2500 years ago would have been eight.
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