To get from 2 - 6.6 Billion people, in 6000 years, (300 generations at 20 years) how many children would the?

Question

Average mother have to given birth to?

For the purpose of this equation lets assume no body dies over the course of 6000 years.

Was temped to ask this in Mathematics.

Answer 1

You have to take into account that in this theory that it started from 2 people and the gestation period is 9 months. Oh yes and the death of previous generations etc.


Oh well if approx 54% of the population is female.

i.e. 2/4/16/64/256/1024/4096/16384/65536/262144/1048576/4194304/16777216/67108864 sorry calculator falls apart after 67 million, that but that's only 14 generations at 4 children, not taking the above factors into consideration.

Taking factors say that everyone had died upto the last 3 generations, it still could be achieved

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You can make the numbers fit, but only if you ignore the fact that for most of recorded history - until the advent of modern agriculture, sanitation and medicine - population growth has been at a maximum about 0.2% per generation. For thousands of years, until about 1000BCE, world population was effectively static.

But even if you do ignore that, then you're faced with impossible problems, like the fact that there would only have been 800 people in the world at the time the pyramids were built.

Basically, it is a fact that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, it is a fact that modern humans have been around for about 250,000 years, and it is a fact that there never was a global flood.

Answer 4

Less than four, believe it or not.

I don't have a calculator, but four children per mother would mean the population doubled every twenty years, and it would exceed 6.6 billion long before 300 generations.

Answer 5

According to Jewish belief, the flood took place in 2102 BCE http://www.akhlah.com/history_tradition/torah_timeline.php and only mentions Noah having three sons (even though he lived 949 years). So, if we start at the three sons of Noah approximately 4109 years ago, we have quite the mathematical nightmare on our hands... I'll return with the calculations after lunch.

p.s. this is not meant to be an insult in any way.

Answer 6

If the Duggar family kept at it, there would be like 17 TRILLION duggars in 200 generations.

But this doesn't tak into account the high infant mortality rate, lower life expectancy, and increased odds of women dying in childbirth.

I think beta_fish comes closest, but we really HAVE to include death. Does anyone know what mortality table MetLife used back then?

Also, to be accurate, we would have to consider both the devoutly religious Catholics and "quiverful" people who have large families as well as the 1 child rule in one of the worlds most populous nations.

Answer 7

We went from 2 to 6.6 billion people in only about 80 years. Try your calculations on that,

Answer 8

Nobody dies? Well, if each couple had 4 children, the world population would be:

2,037,035,976,334,490,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

(2^300)

If they only had 3 children, then the world population would be:

67,201,306,530,145,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

(1.5^300)

If every mother had 2 children and every 5th mother had an extra child (total of 3), then the world population would be only

2,617,010,996,188.45

(1.1^300)

How much farther down should we take it? ;-)

Answer 9

Wow, that is way over my head but I do know that it is impossible that the earth is only 6000 years old.

Answer 10

the bible and creation of the earth in 6 days is a joke and the earth at 6000yrs old it is a fairy tale where are the hobbits