If the world is less than ten thousand years old, and God created Adam and Eve, who populated the earth?

Question

is it feasible that there are now 6,400,000,000 people on it? Or is it more likely that it would take longer, say, 200,000 years for the population to be so large?

SW, apparently 47% of Americans are young Earth creationists, and believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. Apparently, almost 10% of Christian colleges teach it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
Amazing!

Pastor Art: There is no way that every 2 people born have had 4 children every 33 years on average in the last 4400 years.

Answer 1

LMAO This poor earth. First it has to survive multiple generations of inbreds that had to sleep with mom or dad or brother or sis cause there wasn't any other people. After the earth was populated with inbreds, humanity was destroyed by flood except for one family--and then we were repopulated by inbreds. Is it any wonder that in century 21 the human race is as crazy as it is. The world is just one big Arkansas lol.

Answer 2

There's been plenty of time for the offspring of Noah / Adam to become the current population, & in fact, much more! (No one knows just how many people born, have already died, but it is a vast number!)

It is Adam & Eve who were created a little over 6,000 years ago, not the earth within 10,000 years... The creative days were much, much longer than a 24 hour earthly rotation! We today still use the term to use decades of time when refering to the era of a particular person. The day of Adam was over 900 years long, itself. So, it stands to reason that the word day can represent however long a period of time that it took to create the earth, the universe, etc. The Bible itself uses the word 'day' for more than the 24 hour type of day...

Answer 3

What most people fail to admit or just totally ignore is the fact that the Bible itself states that God created mankind BEFORE He created Adam - it's in Genesis, but 99% of preachers, pastors, clerics, priests and other "educated men" will not acknowledge this. God even told mankind PRIOR to Adam to go forth and multiply. THEN He created Adam in His image (what I believe means He gave Adam a soul and that's the missing link between evolutionary man and evolved man). Genesis also indicates that Adam and Eve's offspring married women from another city - suggesting, obviously, that mankind had already built somewhat of a civilization prior to God creating Adam and Eve. So... really, if anyone would read the Bible and allow themselves to absorb the entirety of it, they'd see this. Just a suggestion...

Answer 4

Do you need to take a math class? Let's say that the earth started with two people. Then, let's average 2 children per person per generation, with each generation being 100 years. After 6,000 years (60 generations), the population, if each person survived and had their two children, would be well over the 6.4 billion we have today. To make up for the millions that did not have their two children because they died early, you could do it for 40 generations instead of 60 and you are still well over 1 trillion people, which compensates for those lost after the flood, to wars, famine, disease, etc. So, I'd say 6,000 years fits our current population much better and closer than 200,000. Wouldn't you?

Answer 5

You underestimate the question. Remember that the population was taking back down to only eight at the time of the flood about four thousand years ago.

Having said that, take a moderate estimate of birth rate with an extended lifespan at the beginning of the calculations and you will indeed exceed the total population currently in rather short order. Only with the decreasing birth rate and shortening lifespans do you come close to limiting the population to current levels. You then have to take into account all the needless killings and increasing problems with disease and genetic mutations to bring the population down to current levels.

If you doubt the numbers, then check with a good accountant and have them explain the principle of compounding growth rates.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Noah's family. Try 4,400 years and calculate from there and get back to us. In your calculations make sure you know the average number of children per "mating pairs" is much higher than it is today. Also figure in that some men had multiple wives. It doesn't take long to have population levels well over current population which would allow for mortality rates and wars.

Answer 7

Here is my "Fundi answer"...wait no longer....Adam and Eve lived for 900 years, they had many children, and their children had many children. If each family only had 2 kids apeice like we do now, yes it would take 200,000 years, but having only 2 or so kids is a very recent trend...Notice how our ancestors routinely had 10 or 12 kids. Population would grow very quickly at that rate. 10,000 years is about right.

I am proud to be classified as a "Fundi"....

Answer 8

Adam and Eve lived, like most people back then who were closer to perfect, way, way longer then we do now. They had tons of children and those children had tons of children. Then they all populated the earth. Again back then I am pretty sure there was no Monogomy. One man would take several wives and how a lot of children. They lived to be in there like 300`s so they had like a few decades to make children..And it was more than 10,000 years ago as well.

Not to mention, woman now have choices. Back then their one job was to create heirs and populate kingdoms.
Plus there was probably nothing better to do than "it" anyway.

Christ- think about the whole blinking thing., First off its a figure of speech. God is in a spiriual heaven that would be many many millions of miles away correct? Well then according to our time, being so small and all, then we would in fact have a different time scale. Just like an ant to a human. Its like the phrase "god built the earth in 7 days" probably 7 of his days..

Answer 9

We have about 6000 years of recorded history right, In those years we have come this far, we have created a bomb that can destroy the whole earth with one push of a button, we have satellite's that can zoom in on every place on the planet, and drop a bomb there. Don't you think that if the earth was millions of years old we would have destroyed ourselves by now, come on, look where we have come in the last 100 years alone, and this has caused violence in every corner of the globe. The world right now willnot last another 100 years with out somebody blasting off. Think about it.

Answer 10

most people do not actually read the whole Bible.
and when they read it do not do the math behind what it says.
for instance.
Jesus said "A thousand years is but a blink of Gods eye" some one once did a study on how often a human blinks in the course of a day. if a blink is a thousand years this earth is even older then the scientist think!
6 days of blinking!!!!!!!!!!