Thank you for the quote. The great St. Augustine! I love him. But the post was not about Scriptures, creation, etc. simply an indication, a mathematical one, that the human race is relatively young. You could use the equation to go backwards form $7 billion dollars to see how long it took yielding the same exponential interest. Not a “proof,” but certainly gives an indication that it’s just as rash to believe man existing for zillions of years. God bless...
I would be remiss to not point out the last 6 entries for my first link [prior post] defend your position quite well.
In fact #96 is almost a verbatim of this thread’s premise:
96. Human history is consistent with a young age of the earth
Human population growth. Less than 0.5% p.a. growth from six people 4,500 years ago would produce today’s population. Where are all the people? if we have been here much longer?
97. “Stone age” human skeletons and artefacts. There are not enough for 100,000 years of a human population of just one million, let alone more people (10 million?). See Where are all the people?
98. Length of recorded history. Origin of various civilizations, writing, etc., all about the same time several thousand years ago. See Evidence for a young world.
99. Languages. Similarities in languages claimed to be separated by many tens of thousands of years speaks against the supposed ages (e.g. compare some aboriginal languages in Australia with languages in south-eastern India and Sri Lanka). See The Tower of Babel account affirmed by linguistics.
100. Common cultural “myths” speak of recent separation of peoples around the world. An example of this is the frequency of stories of an earth-destroying flood.
101. Origin of agriculture. Secular dating puts it at about 10,000 years and yet that same chronology says that modern man has supposedly been around for at least 200,000 years. Surely someone would have worked out much sooner how to sow seeds of plants to produce food. See: Evidence for a young world.
Throughout most of history the population rapidly hits the maximum levels the land can handle with years of starvation when things get a little rough. The drought of 2012 would have resulted in great starvation this winter if we were at the maximum level farms could sustain. Fortunately we have a surplus so we didn't have to face millions dead, but that is the normal fate humanity from prehistory to the 19th century.