if everybody now came from Noah & his wife how long would it take for 2 to turn in to 6 billion?

Question

how do you go from 2 to 6 billion in a couple thousand years

im not asking this on a biological stand point only on a biblical one

Answer 1

Lets say each woman has 2 children 1 male one female and they have 2 children 1 male 1 femal and they continue about every 30 years. Average in 100 years you have tripled your population. So in 1000 years you have 236196 in the very last generation born not counting parents. in 2000 years you have 13,947,137,604 children in the last generation not including parents.
A couple things to keep in mind each woman usually had many children well over 1 boy and 1 girl and they usually started having kids before they were 18 so my numbers areway under the actual numbers.
Oh yeah Noah had 3 sons and their wives were with them when Noah left with his family.

Answer 2

If you assume that each family has 4 surviving children, then the Earth's population can double every generation.


2^n = 6,000,000,000. n is about 32, so, IN THEORY you could go from 2 to 6 billion in 32 generations, at 25 years a generation that is less than a thousand years.

Oddly enough this is about the only part of the ark fable that can pan out without massive miracle working from god.

A better question is why Zebras and antelopes etc. did not die out the instant the lions were first hungry after coming off the ark. Even without the lions, the grass they ate had been submerged for over a year at a depth greater than two miles (read the story for the time line, and Ararat is higher than 2 miles) There was nothing there for any herbivores to eat, and a very limited supply of food for the carnivores.

Answer 3

More than two, Noah had kids and their spouses and brought them along.

But using standard amortization principals (Log e) with two people making one new person each year (birth rate) after 6,000 years (time span in the bible) you get 21 billion people.

That's three times todays rate of population, hence you must take Wars, Plague into account

Now, how many people should there be after 100 million years.

More than can fit on the Earth.

If you get 21 billion from 2 with a birth rate of 1 per year over a 6,000 year period

What would you amortize from 2 over a 200 million year period.

Do the math.

It proves science is wrong.

I came up with 220 billion people on my first attempt at that one, seems low to me.

Answer 4

It's not very likely to ever happen. When a population of individuals gets to a very low point, it will almost inevitably go extinct. Never (that I've heard of) has an animal population gotten to a low point of one (or four) breeding pairs and been able to re-establish itself. It's a by product of the competitive exclusion principle.

Answer 5

I guess this long since that is exactly what happened. I guess if God is capable of bring Christ back from the dead He could handle a few billion people

Answer 6

..let alone evolving (gasp!) so many ethnic differences.

factor in limited a gene pool (incest! ew!), evidence of people existing around the world 40,000+ years ago, improbability of an "ark" holding 1.6 billion species, and you've got one debunked folk tale.

Answer 7

There were more than two people on the boat.

It's called the power of multiplication. Any pyramid money making scheme can tell you about the power of multiplication today....lol.

God Bless - Jesus Lives!

Answer 8

there are 100 different story's of a flood(which gives it a little credibility)

even storys from south america of a flood,most people only heard 1 story

Answer 9

We must have been bacteria for a couple of years, then Wham!

Answer 10

there where alot of people in the ark with Noah(pbuh)