If there had been four people in the Garden of Eden to start out with, would there be twice as many people?

Question

I asked my arithmetic teacher and she said yes.
I asked a sociology professor and he said he didn't know.

Answer 1

I'd say your sociology professor is a wise man.
He didn't make any guesses, and you can't say he told you
'yes' or 'no'.

But that's a question I have never heard before, and my friends and I just love to ponder. I'll have to bring this one up at our next get-together. (wink,wink)
Thanks!
BTW- I would say that even though I don't know, I'd guess it would be just as it is now.

Answer 2

Sorry, that is not the way it works. Disease, #1, war, #2 has a way of reducing the population! (Or, in the case of America, drunk drivers!)
The thing of it is that in early mankindhood, people lived in small bands of 20 - 30. When one band had more men than women, they would "trade" with a band that had more women than men. During this development period of mankind, population was rather static. Anthropologists are not certain just what happened; historians say that people learned agriculture and that is what increased the population.
But, at any rate, until modern times with medicines and emergency rooms, population before was limited to natural conditions.
E.g., in Europe, the population doubled in one century: from 1500 to 1600, because the Spaniards brought new foods back to Europe from the Americas! Before that, the population could not increase because there was nothing more to feed more people.
Of course, with almost 7 billion persons on earth, we are once again facing this possibility: the spectre of hunger, starvation, disease. It is only a matter of time.
See:
World Population Growth
Year Population
1 200 million
1000 275 million
1500 450 million
1650 500 million
1750 700 million
1804 1 billion
1850 1.2 billion
1900 1.6 billion
1927 2 billion
1950 2.55 billion
1955 2.8 billion

1960 3 billion
1965 3.3 billion
1970 3.7 billion
1975 4 billion
1980 4.5 billion
1985 4.85 billion
1990 5.3 billion
1995 5.7 billion
1999 6 billion
2000 6.1 billion
2005 6.45 billion
2006 6.5 billion

2010 6.8 billion
2020 7.6 billion
2030 8.2 billion
2040 8.8 billion
2050 9.2 billion




10000 BC 1 TO 10 MILLION
8000 BC 5 MILLION
6500 BC 5 TO 10 MILLION
5000 BC 5 TO 20 MILLION
4000 BC 7 MILLION
3000 BC 14 MILLION
2000 BC 27 MILLION
1000 BC 50 MILLION
500 BC 100 MILLION
400 BC 162 MILLION
200 BC 150 - 231 MILLION
1 170 - 400 MILLION
200 190 - 256 MILLION
400 190 - 206 MILLION
500 190 - 206 MILLION
600 200 - 206 MILLION
700 207 - 210 MILLION
800 220 - 224 MILLION
900 226 - 240 MILLION
1000 254 - 345 MILLION
1100 301 - 320 MILLION
1200 360 - 450 MILLION
1250 400 - 416 MILLION
1300 360 - 432 MILLION
1340 443 MILLION
1400 350 - 374 MILLION
1500 425 - 540 MILLION
1600 545 - 579 MILLION
1650 470 - 545 MILLION
1700 600 - 679 MILLION
1750 629 - 961 MILLION
1800 813 - 1,125 MILLION
1850 1,128 - 1402 MILLION
1900 1,550 - 1,762 MILLION
1910 1,750 MILLION
1920 1,860 MILLION
1930 2,070 MILLION
1940 2,300 MILLION
1950 2,400 - 2,557


http://www.census.gov/ipc/www.worldhis.html

WORLD POPULATION, 2000 BC, IN MILLIONS 25 Farmers gather together into cities and small MIDDLE EAST 6 kingdoms to build irrigation systems and
CENTRAL ASIA 1 monuments. Central Asian herders invade the
SUBCONTINENT 5 Middle East and India.
EAST ASIA 3
OCEANIA 1
AMERICAS 2
EUROPE 5
CENTRAL AFRICA 2







BIBLE BEFORE 2000 BC TO 1000 BC

c. 2100 BC Abram (later renamed Aabraham) moves from Ur to Canaan. His son Isaac has twins: Esau & Jacob (later renamed Israel).

c. 1900 BC Jacob’s son Joseph is sold into Egyptian slavery by his own brothers. 20 years later, his father Jacob and all his family move to Egypt.

c. 1500 BC The Israelites greatly increase in population and then become slaves of Egypt.
c. 1450 BC Moses leads the Israelites from Egypt and through the Red Sea. In the desert, the Law is given. Israelites refuse to enter Canaan and as a result wander the desert for 40 years.

c. 1410 BC Joshua leads the next generation of Israelites into Canaan.

c. 1375 BC Beginning of the time of Judges. For 300 years, the Israelites repeat a cycle of deterioration, oppression, deliverance and then peace. Samson is the last Judge before the kingdom is established under Saul.


How long does it take for 8 people to become 25 million?

It seems like it would take a long time, but it could be done amazingly quickly. the primary limiting factor appears to be the amount of food available.

If a woman’s childbearing years are from age 16 to 40 and she has a child every two years, she can give birth to 12 children. If there is plenty of food and few diseases, then most of these children will grow up to have children themselves. On average, 6 of these 12 children will be girls and grow up to be mothers.

With each mother producing 6 more mothers a generation, 8 people can reproduce into 25 million in a few hundred years. As conditions man not have been ideal after the flood, it may have taken considerably longer.

In short, more people in Eden could not have produced more people now; they would have starved to death!

Scientists claim that without chemical fertilyzers, pesticides, herbicides, etc., the world can provide for a grand total of 1 billion persons. So, of every 7 people you know, 6 are living on borrowed time...

Answer 3

If you read the Bible, it actually states that there were "other people" outside the garden. Adam and Eve had two sons...one killed the other....the surviving son was cast out. and took a wife from the folks in the land of Nod. mmm kinda brings up an interesting question. I have written on thie topic before, so if interested let me know Ill send ya the paper.


So in answer to your question...I don't think that the Garden of Eden having two more people would have made a bit of difference.

Answer 4

. Well, if you believe in that biblical nonsense, then you have to believe in the Great Flood.
That suppossedly wiped out everybody except this dude named Noah and a few close friends. Even if there were twice as many people hanging around Noah, he wouldn't have saved any more.
"...God told Noah to make an ark, and to bring with him his wife, and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. Additionally, he was told to bring examples of all animals... , "

Answer 5

I'd say no. Because if there were twice as many people on earth right now then there would be more wars,famine,diseases and murders. So I'd say there would be less people on earth.

Answer 6

There are no Garden of Eden, our ancestors have apelike features. We evolved from them. Adam and Eve are fictional characters.

Answer 7

Not at all. Animals at the top of the food chain, like us, will kill each other to control our numbers.

Answer 8

According to biblical reference, there were 3 men and a woman and they were blood related. Therefore, we must all be inbred somehow.

Answer 9

Not to sound like a pessimist, but if the 2 guys were gay, there would't be any people!

Answer 10

the numbers and existence vary with each other