if the earth is 6000 years old ( the bible says so)?

Question

if that is true then surly it would be imposible to populate the world from 2 to 06729329200 people in 6000 years?

or am i being silly?

there would be enough generations would there?

btw in not reliogios and i am fully aware of the known age of the earth

Answer 1

You're not silly, the Bible is.

Answer 2

A statement or even an assumption that the earth is 6,000 years old is not in the Bible.

The idea is mostly blamed on an Archbishop of the Anglican Church by the name of James Ussher. His work, based on genealogies, given and estimated life spans, many fine calculations, and his own assumptions; where printed in Bible margins or foot notes many years ago. The year given was 4004.

Ussher lived from 1581-1656. About the same time another guy by the name of Lightfoot came up with 3928 at 9 a.m. There are a great many fingers pointed at those who blame Ussher for the exact hour, which he never gave, and curse Lighfoot for premature delivery.

Your question issues from a non-event that was put forward 351 years ago and has become part of the Atheist-Christian Broken Record Syndrome. A common, but unfortunately, non-fatal disease.

As to population. Current is about 6.7 billion with a sound estimate of about 9.1 billion expected 42 or 43 years from now! There could be more if people tended strictly to business. The question of population numbers in 6,000 years is mute. You might enjoy: http://www.secretsituation.com/geo/graphic.htm

Answer 3

The bible does not say the earth is 6,000 years old. It is much older, probably billions of years.

Yes, the population could easily reach 6 billion in the roughly 5,000 years since the flood (4 pairs of parents).

However, if we use population growth models on the million or so years modern man has been around in the evolutionary model, the population would be about P = 3.7 x 10^2091 persons. Now that is absurd.

Answer 4

Although there is plenty of evidence that the Earth is more than 6000 years old, the size of the human population is not part of that evidence.

Under ideal conditions, it is certainly possible for the human population to have gone from only two people to 6 billion in less than 6000 years.

Of course, we haven't had ideal conditions, but even only assuming two children per couple every twenty years, there's still more than sufficient reproductive capacity in the human race to have done it.

Answer 5

The Bible Never says that.
A few crazy fundies have interpreted that but it is never stated in the Bible.

On the other hand 6000 years is plenty of time for a 7 billion population.
"There are more people alive today than have ever died in the history of the world"

Answer 6

Don't forget the bottle neck 600 years after adam and eve when Noah's flood happened..

That give 5400 years for the population to go from 8(if I remember the story correctly) to 6,446,000,000 (estimate in 2005)

Even with expanintial growth there isn't enough time.. Infant mortality, etc. has to also be factored in..

Answer 7

Yes it would if there were good population growth due to modern food production technology. Young Earthers often use fake growth curves to prove their point. They pick a number akin to modern population growth, assume that there were no population decreases (like the Black Death) in order to get the results they want. They ignore the periods in which growth was restricted by food supply (Malthusian Law).

Answer 8

And what about the dinosaurs which happen to be hundreds of millions of years old? Some of my fellow Christians are afraid that thinking for themselves outside the realm of what pastor teaches them would be sin. It's very sad.

You're forgetting that a day to the Lord is as a thousand years.

Answer 9

Very Bible-based Christians will find you their own excuses. For me, the Bible in terms of numbers and years does not have to be taken literally. Call me for making excuses, but I think there is more to be learnt from it in terms of useful lessons and stuff, than facts and figures - I think that's its point. But you're probably right. It just perhaps doesn't all have to have happened exactly the way it says it does.

Answer 10

In China; we have more than 10,000 years history with record. 60,000 years without record. The numbers in the bible is not a issue. The bible is written by Moss at that moment to lead Irael to the right way. Other thing is not a big deal.

Answer 11

You are not being silly

saying the earth is 6000 is like saying the grand Canyon is as wide as your finger

or that you can jump from LA to NY