Evolutionists??? How can you have a 0% population growth for more than 20,000 years?

Question

when in only 2000 years we've seen an exponential growth?
#2 if you cant explain 20,000 years, try explaining just the last 10,000 years.

Answer 1

Are you aware that only Christians use the distinctive name "evolutionist" to describe their enemies? Nobody but Fundies even uses the term. Most professional scientists regard the label "evolutionist" as an insult, since there is no question within the scientific community that the theory of evolution is as close to truth as it's been possible for humans to discover, given our present knowledge.

As to your question, I'll try to answer as best I can, but I don't really understand exactly you're asking. As far as I can determine there was never a documented period of 20,000 years where the human population remained constant. The mathematical dynamics of population growth is very well understood, but there is no way to know for sure what the actual human population was before civilizations emerged with the ability to take an accurate census and keep written records. That began about 2,000 years ago.

I suspect prehistorical human populations waxed and waned, according to the local environmental circumstances each group of people experienced. All the variables that act on animal populations also applied to early humans, until we eventually took matters into our own hands and developed practical agriculture and cooperative civilizations which allowed human populations to expand beyond natural limitations. There is archaeological evidence that organized agriculture existed and that humans constructed primative dwellings from as long as 10,000 years ago, but there are no surviving records of actual human population levels from these times. The truth is we can only make educated guesses about prehistoric population levels.

Perhaps if you'd been scholar enough to document your unsubstantiated claim of 20,000 years of zero population growth, someone might have been better able to actually answer your particular question.

Answer 2

What makes you think that there was 0% population growth for 20,000 years?

I'm afraid you're trying to argue about something that's WAY over your head.

Answer 3

Just because your Christian world is only concerned with the last 2,000 years doesn't mean that life went on way before that time. That we are even here proves that. I'd like to know where you came up with the 0% growth figure.

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Answer 4

With evolution. Lol

Animal populations don't grow much, if any.

With evolution, we evolved to the point where we could live more than 40 years. This gave us enough time to...breed...exponentially.

Answer 5

Are you quite insane? There hasn't been 0% population growth and nowhere in evolution does it say that there would be. Are you really this stupid?

Answer 6

this has nothing to do with evolution per se.

this is basic birth rate/death rate parity; improved standards of living let people live longer and more offspring live to reproductive age, thus beginning a pattern of regular increase.

this is about technology.

Answer 7

The population explosion on earth is directly tied to the discoveries of how to utilize oil, steam, and coal. It really has nothing to do with evolution.

Answer 8

Two words:
Ice Age

Answer 9

Try 'agriculture' and 'industrialization.'

Look 'em up.

Or you could believe that the world is only 6000 years old. You can't have it both ways.

Plus, where do you get your figures? You made 'em up didn't you?

Answer 10

I'd like you to explain your question as it makes zero sense.