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To: VadeRetro

the math comes in calculating the rest of the growth chart after census has run out. As the "scientist and I am using the term generously" accept no site, or link any creationist presents, I am trusting that you can find population growth charts of your own. so once again, you do the math, and prove me wrong.


1,684 posted on 02/16/2006 7:01:39 PM PST by whispering out loud (the bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie)
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To: whispering out loud
I'm having trouble parsing your English. When, for instance, does the census "run out?"

While I can't exactly anticipate the precise nature of your "math," let me try in a way to say what the mainstream understanding is. The original insight came from Malthus, who influenced young Darwin.

Which is to say that Paleolithic hunter-gatherer technology allows a certain population density, a pretty thin one. Add a certain amount of farming and you can have some cities and an overall greater population per square mile.

At any given technological level, there's a competition for resources and a ceiling on population growth.

Having once reached the Malthusian limit, it takes improvements in technology to increase food production to allow population growth. For most of human history we were low-tech and basically just another animal species competing with the rest.

I'd pretty much guarantee up front that any model your "math" represents doesn't consider any of that. Thus, it's hardly worth doing any arithmetic. If the model is bad, the scenario is "Garbage in, garbage out."

1,687 posted on 02/16/2006 7:13:15 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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