Posted on 09/03/2009 8:30:08 AM PDT by Freepmanchew
The news is out that Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger are having another child, their 19th. Yes you read correctly, 19 children and their oldest son's wife is expecting their first child. Let us all pray that he follows in his parents footsteps, by having as many children and being as prosperous as his parents. I have heard many people ask the question, "Are they keeping up the household without being on the government dole?" The answer to that question would be that they have never received a dime of taxpayer's money. That is not how they operate. In fact the Duggers run a their own ,business which teaches people how to budget and save by buying only what you can afford among other businesses they own and operate. They built their own home themselves, and had it paid for before it was finished. Right about now many liberals are screaming that the world is already overpopulated and this couple are just adding to the problem. Overpopulated? Is it really?
When it comes to having children, most Christians understand that the Lord opens and closes a woman's womb, and it has been that way from the beginning of time. However, mankind has tried to control that which God said is in His control. The first commandment given to man was, “Be fruitful and multiply Gen 1:22”, and He re-iterated that command again after the Flood when he told Noah, “Be fruitful and multiply Gen 9:7”. Try as I may, I have yet to find any passages where God rescinded that command. What He does tell us, is that if we put our faith in Him, He will supply our needs. Something the Duggers have proved time and time again.
However, the world we live in today is dominated by societies that worship the creation over the creator, and thus we hear the constant complaints from the "World is Overpopulated" crowd. Even in the church you will find that many Christians have very little faith in God's ability to supply their needs.
The average family in America has two point five children that consists of one boy and one girl and the statistics do not differ in the families that frequent church. Even in the families that diligently attend church more than once a week reflect the national average of 2.5 children per household. For over 40 years Americans have been bombarded with the idea that humans will overpopulate the planet if we do not limit the number of children being born every year. We have been told time and time again that if we do not control the number of humans who live on this planet that,
“it will be done for us by nature, brutally, without pity, and it will leave a ravaged world.” World Population Awareness Nobel Laureate Dr. Henry W. Kendall
As of 2 September 2009, the Earth's population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.781 billion. That is a lot of people, and the earth worshipers believe that number is way too high for the planet to properly sustain life. Sadly, very few people realize how preposterous the idea of mankind overpopulating the earth really is. If you take into consideration the latest figures that shows the average human family contains a Mother a Father and 2.5 children, than you will be surprised to learn that the world's population would fit comfortably inside the borders of the country of Australia.
By calculating the number of acres just in Australia alone, you may be shocked at how very unpopulated the earth really is. There are 1,899,461,760 acres of land in the continent of Australia. At 43,560 square feet per acre, that means there is a grand total of 82,740,554,265,600 square feet in Australia. Now, consider that the latest figures for the estimated size of an average family lot with a 2,200 square foot house in the year 2010 will be 11,870 square feet. Now if we calculate the size of the average human family which is 4.5 humans, you will see that every family could actually have a house with a lot size of 54,908 square feet, which is about 4½ times the size that your local city planning commission will allow you to have. That my friends, would leave the rest of the world for food production and other raw material collection.
Now these numbers get even better when you factor in the new technology we have that would allow for super high density populations, such as 1000+ unit apartment complexes. Then when you take into account the portion of the world's population that is under the age of 18. You could probably give a couple acres to each family of the entire world and comfortably fit them all in Australia. Also, Australia is the smallest continent on the planet, whereas Asia has 477,820,303,488,000 sq/ft and Africa has 32,554,273,973,760 sq/ft. Finally, if you took the amount of habitable land in the world 1,449,676,800,000,000 sq/ft and divided it by the world's population, you could theoretically give each person, regardless of age, 213,785 square feet of land, which would be about 4.9 acres per person.
No my friends, this planet is a very, very long way from being overpopulated. As a matter of fact, we could use more Christian families like the Duggers, who decided to follow God's first commandment by being fruitful and multiplying.
Ping for later could be fun
at any rate, i support this family and hope the kids have 20 kids each as long as they can afford them.
My great Grandmother had 21 live births, but only 14 survived the first year. At that time it was not considered “weird” or unusual. Neighbors around them had large families as well.
As long as this family isn’t ‘taken out’..there will be a ‘remnant’ !! Those who have ears to hear...
Don’t you think that the guy was just using Australia for an example of how we really are not all that populated?
I mean I have heard you could give each family a 1500 sq ft home and fit them all comfortably in Texas. So maybe he was just using the land mass for an example that people could identify with for hi overall point of available land on the earth for habitation.
I think the point of the article is that, regardless of what lefty loonies say, the world is not overpopulated. The left uses that reasoning to pass legislation for enviro-worshiping fascists.
well yeah, but that’s a silly argument. that’s like saying there is plenty of room for one person to sleep in a huge room that has broken glass and nails all over the floor.
If they can handle it, more power to them!
No it is not, run the numbers yourself and you will see that as a whole the world can accommodate everyone plus another 100 biilion if needed. Whats stops us is wars and the left rhat gets in the way of advancewments. We have the technology to turn deserts into very habitably usefuull land. Have you been to Las Vegas or Phonix l;ately? 100 years ago they said you cannot survive there, but now they are doing fine. I read someplace that the guy who wrote this is a freeper named OneVike and he said he used Australia as an example to show you how unpopulated the world really is. Fact is as Freepmanchew said above you could use the state of Texas if I wanted to.
With the technology we have for super 1000+ unit apartments for the high density populations as the article states, we also have the ability to grow more in less space, heck maybe someday we will be able to even grow steaks in petri dishes. Then again we do have the “SOYLENT GREEN” idea that the Obama HC cwod MIGHT LIKE. (just kidding) Also, we know from the space stations we can, and do in many societies, recycle human waste. I know it sounds terrible, but the earth does, we have just been able to duplicate that process in a much quicker time period.
If you don’t like Australia or Texas as examples than pick a continent and we can fit the whole human race comfortably inside with the proper buildings infrastructure and transportation modes needed to make it work. All this is to show that we have a very very long way to go before the world is so populated we will be in trouble.
Besides, for neanderthals like me and my husband, we believe God will return so the whole scenario of millions of people dieing of starvation due to overpopulation will never happen. Other than what happens right now due to the evil totalitarian type governments like Obama and the Democrats are enamored with.
Well, one of the horsemen is Famine...
I agree....when I first heard of the Duggars, I thought they were nuts, but after reading about them, I found true respect for them. What distinguishes them from say, the octomom, is that they are SELF SUFFICIENT.....they do not have children irresponsibly, then expect the welfare state (meaning us) to pay for their nocturnal mishap while the mom sits on the porch smoking crack and wonders where the baby daddies are. The Duggars are genuine hard working people, who refuse to depend on welfare...or even loans. They help each other, they are modest, they shop at thrift stores, they do their own chores and laundry.
God loving, hard working, people who refuse a hand out. You know, true patriotic Americans. Where have they all gone?
God bless them.
Christian faith and anti-overpopulation ping.
This is an article I wrote for Post Scripts, but it seems that it was posted in whole here from one of my personal blogs I use for a repository of articles I write.
Even though it was posted yesterday also it got re-posted again, well it’s posted now so I figure I would give you a ping heads up.
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Oh yea if you must know I am Chuck Ness, there now everyone who cares knows.
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Yes, but we do not know why the famine will occur, other than God ordained it to happen.
My guess is it will happen because of leftist policies that only retard mankind’s ability to feed the masses. Look at the Soviet Union. All that land and they could never grow enough wheat so we kept selling it to them. African nations starving because of dictators, all over the world people starve, North Korea is the best example we have right now.
So you can see the prophecy of worldwide famine will not necessarily be because of overpopulation but most likely because of leftist policies like Obama is in love with.
Thanks for the ping!
Chuck! You’re my hero!
Well, bless her heart for bearing all those kids and his for supporting them properly. But, I’m a Christian and I do not want 19 children. I don’t even want one.
I think it’s a great wisdom to know what you can handle and what you can’t. People like the Duggards seem to have a calling.
Gee, Thanks.
I always wanted to be loved and adored by others....LOL
I ran the numbers once, I have 5 children, if each has 5 children and each of their’s has 5 children, in 7 generations I will have over a million desendents...compound interest is facinating...Like a penny a day doubled for 30 days gives you a million dollars...day 1 =1 penny, day 2 = 2 pennies, day 3= 4 pennies, day 4=8 pennies...etc etc etc...
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