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<blockquote data-quote="Elicola" data-source="post: 1544955" data-attributes="member: 23914">We can use population as a measure of time.God could create fully grown animals and plants, and seemingly ancient rocks.&nbsp; But God created only two humans, and now there are almost 8 billion.&nbsp; That requires doubling 32 times.&nbsp; Wikipedia estimates around 250 million people when Jesus walked the earth.&nbsp; The population has doubled roughly 5 times since then, or once per 400 years.&nbsp; That still means that the population doubled 27 times from creation to year 0 A.D.&nbsp; At 400 years per doubling, it would take slightly more than 10,000 years.&nbsp; But remember, historically there were wars, famines, plagues, stagnant dark ages and ice ages that slowed or reversed population growth.&nbsp; It took Moses 40 years to guide his tribe across a small desert.&nbsp; Normally, it takes many generations to find new land to support people.What is the solution?&nbsp; Is Genesis metaphorical, and God created a large initial population (including souls)?&nbsp; Or were cavemen able to reproduce, travel, and population the earth at prodigious rates?[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elicola, post: 1544955, member: 23914"] We can use population as a measure of time. God could create fully grown animals and plants, and seemingly ancient rocks. But God created only two humans, and now there are almost 8 billion. That requires doubling 32 times. Wikipedia estimates around 250 million people when Jesus walked the earth. The population has doubled roughly 5 times since then, or once per 400 years. That still means that the population doubled 27 times from creation to year 0 A.D. At 400 years per doubling, it would take slightly more than 10,000 years. But remember, historically there were wars, famines, plagues, stagnant dark ages and ice ages that slowed or reversed population growth. It took Moses 40 years to guide his tribe across a small desert. Normally, it takes many generations to find new land to support people. What is the solution? Is Genesis metaphorical, and God created a large initial population (including souls)? Or were cavemen able to reproduce, travel, and population the earth at prodigious rates? [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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