If the earth is really millions of years old, then why aren't there more people?

Question

If the earth is really millions of years old, then there should be alot more people, animals, trees, bugs and stuff. There should be thousands times more life than there is.The planet would be FULL with no place to move. But it's not. So that's just another gap that evolution can not explain.

Answer 1

Same thing that going to happen again on April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th whooo).
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news146.html
Then we will have to start over again.

Here a YouTube show what will happen. 7 1/2 minutes.
It going to be awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3G0rvCIJc&search=asteroid+hits+earth

Answer 2

First, people did not come into the picture millions of years after the earth formed. We just take up a tip of that iceburg. And as for the life, animals die a lot along with the common extinction. There have been six extinctions in the past and every time, the world was full when because of changes, over 90% die. It would not be a gap in evolution simply because humans came late and animals go extinct (Along with mass extinctions killing all life but a couple hundred).

Answer 3

Not really - the earth was uninhabitable for millions and millions of years after it formed, then, by chance in the primordial soup, very basic life began. Then according to the theory of evolution life as we know it evolved by means of mutations giving some lifeforms an advantage.

Humans have only been around for a tiny fraction of this time. In fact, if the entire history of life was compressed into a day - people would ony have been around for a split second.

Also. Stuff dies. So there's plenty of room.

Answer 4

Actually, not. And I'm not even a fan of evolution. In sociology, population either undergoes a "S" curve or an "J" curve. An "S" curve, which is rare in our history, is where a population rises as a result of a high birth rate and then levels out over time with the birth and death rate being about equal. A "J" curve, which is more common, is where a population has a high birth rate with a low death rate and spikes up. But then, either disease, war, or famine, cause the population to drop off sharply followed by another "J" curve. It has nothing to do with an evolutionary gap, but has more to do with a population's drop off over time. By the way. In the United States with a population living longer, sociologists are about to see a "J" curve in action. It is only a matter of time.

Answer 5

think about this, how many kids have you had? if the answer is 2 or less (because it takes two people to reproduce) then you are not making the population any bigger.

The average is slightly above two (as the world population is rising.) We dont keep pumping out kids until the world is full, and we havent done so in the past either, plus plagues, predators, lack of foods, wars and diseases have had a lot to do with it.

Answer 6

Nature is a complex "system", not a bunch of independent organisms all living on the same planet with no effect on each other. Among other things, it's a biologic fact that all creatures have a reproductive "braking system" that causes them to increase or decrease the numbers of offspring that they have as conditions allow. Add to that...climactic changes and natural disasters, there is nothing surprising about this at all.

Answer 7

Just because the earth is millions of years old doesn't mean that people have always been there. We're a relatively new component of the mixture.

Besides, six billion isn't exactly a small number...

Answer 8

that would be true if no one ate plants and animals, millions of plants animals and humans are killed every year, that contributes mostly to the lower number of everything as you say. and humans only showed up somewhere around fifty thousand years ago, give humans some time and we will overpopulate the earth don't worry (note the sarcasm)

Answer 9

The earth is about 2 billion years old. There were dinosaurs up until about 361 million years ago. Archeology and geology prove this. The reason why our current population is at its current level is because things die. Plants die, trees die, cows die, people die. Death makes way for new life. Forest fires clear new land, sharks eat other fish, lions, tigers, and bears also do their part. Assuming that there should be more plants, animals, and people than there currently is does not make evidence against evolution. Without death Darwin's theory doesn't even hold ground!

Answer 10

Earth is about 4.75 Billion years old. But living things and the plants should have come to existence only from few thousand years.

Answer 11

How about.. things _DIE_

By the way, living space isn't a problem for evolution because new species can evolve from prior ones. It is a problem for creationism, however. 99.9% of species that ever existed are now extinct. If no new species can come about, where did all these things live when they all existed at the same time??