As far I am aware - no matter how young or old your parents are when you are born - each child comes into the world the product of two people - ergo - two parents. That's the math of it.
AND each person born has, biologically, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 - 32 - 64 - 128 - and so on....it doubles each generation back: In the 14th generation, each person has over 4,000 ancestors - with the same number between him/her and that generation.p>So far as I know, that's the 'system - each person is the product of two parents, whether the parents were 16 or 46 at the time.
Societies/customs come and go over time - and NO ONE"S ancestry comes on down through hundreds of years from just one of them. People have, throughout history, done a lot of traveling and our ancestry branches out to ancestors from all over the world and numerous ethnic groups that most people have no clue about and would never guess.
It evens out over time.
The same amount of ancestors.
BTW way, I have some of my ancestral lines back to the 3rd century. And in the process have become somewhat familiar with what I'm talking about.
First.
I am not trying to be critical of you.
But your reasoning is wrong.
According to your theory, if somewhere on the planet a child is born, then that somehow increases the number of ancestors I HAVE.
(It was your statement that EAch of us have the same number of ancestors)
If that child then grows and has children of his own, that increases the number of my ancestors!
Based on the same statement.
In mathematics, this is called open set theory and has to do with making lists in what’s called an ORDINAL sense versus what’s called a CARDINAL sense.
Whatever you may chose to believe, I’m not gonna lose sleep over it. And no matter what, I do applaud your efforts to apply logic.
But it just doesn’t work that way.
regards,
djf