Evolution and current world population?

Question

If Evolution is true, at least 3,000 billion people would have lived and died in the however many years humans, supposedly, have been on the earth. WHERE ARE ALL THE BONES AND ARTIFACTS?!!!

Answer 1

Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in.

It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy.

However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer:

Your assumptions about a constant population growth rate are false. You're making them without any basis.

Actually, you just accepted somebody else's lies without checking. Just like you've done with your bible.

Answer 2

A population of bacteria can double every 15 minutes. Therefore the Earth cannot be more than a week old, because in any more time than that the entire Earth would be covered with nothing but bacteria!

Your question is based on a completely silly argument - that you can extrapolate the rate at which something is currently happening back an infinite amount of time. Human population growth has not always been the same as now.

During most of human history, humans were hunter-gatherers. They would move to a location, eat the fruit, nuts and kill the animals and move on. They lived off of the land. The land can only support so many humans.

Additionally, when they moved, they could only take so many children who could not walk with them.

During this part of human history, the population was stable. It only started to increase when agriculture was invented. It didn't reach its current rate of growth until the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 3

Actually, if the earth is as old as the evolutionists claim, it would not be able to hold the entire population. Take a look at the compelling mathematical evidence supporting a young earth below.

One of the strongest arguments for a young Earth comes from the field of population kinetics. Without going into full detail here in the short space available, the argument from population statistics may be stated as follows. Using the formula

Pn = 2/(C-1) (Cn-x+1) (Cx - 1)

it is possible to compute the world population (Pn = world population after n generations; n = number of generations; x = life span in terms of generations; 2C = number of children per family). If evolutionary figures were entered into this formula, with man having lived on the Earth only one million years (some evolutionists suggest that man, in one form or another, has been on the Earth 2-3 million years), there would be an Earth population of 1 x 105000! That number is a 1 followed by 5,000 zeroes. But the Universe (at an estimated size of 20 billion light years in diameter) would hold only 1 x 10100 people. Using creationist figures, however, the current world population would be approximately 4.34 billion people. Evolutionary figures thus would imply an Earth population 104900 times greater than would fit into the entire Universe! The question is—which of the two figures is almost exactly on target, and which could not possibly be correct?

Answer 4

Six Feet Under, or frozen. Remember the discovery of a very well-preserved caveman with the world's oldest-known tattoo? That corpse was approximately 70,000 years old. For the most part, the practice of burial has been around long before religion.

I highly doubt your 3 trillion digit.

Answer 5

Fossils are very, very hard to find. For bones to be turned into fossils, it takes the right conditions. And even then they are very fragile. For a fossil to be created and last for 1000 years is extremely rare. So ones that are 100,000 are even more rare. Just think of how little fossils we have from just 2000 years ago.

Answer 6

Given the grip of math the average creationist has demonstrated on this site so far, I question your numbers. What are your starting assumptions? Do people die at the same age all through the ages? Have you accounted for wars and disease and famine?

Answer 7

Math wasn't one of your best subjects now was it?


Where's all the bones: You do realize that bones don't last forever right? There's only certain situations in which bone fragments would be preserved.

Answer 8

And on what do you base this? A single exponential regression equation?

Pity those fail to take into account things like major die-offs, such as the Bubonic Plague.

Answer 9

Don't know how you got his figure but did you account that not eveyone has children, still births, death of infants, children deaths, teen deaths, wars, famine, floods??? Not everyone lives to be 70yo. If your trying to prove creation your not going about it the right way.

Answer 10

Your number is fictitious and exaggerated, and most bones and artifacts do not survive.