Posted on 01/03/2014 10:54:01 AM PST by fwdude
Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it…”
How long have people been living on the Earth? The evolutionist says two million years. The Bible-believing Christian says about six thousand. Who is right?
Statistically, a couple must have 2.1 children to keep a population at the same level. In practice, this means a minimum of three children per family. Let us suppose for a moment that the biblical account of the Genesis Flood in which just eight people survived is true. Let us further suppose that each family from this population point in history had 2.4 children on average. This very modest number will take into account all the deaths through infant mortality, plagues and war. How long would it take to reach today’s world population? Surprisingly, the answer is just less than five thousand years. This figure fits nicely into known historical records.
Now suppose we take the evolutionary view that mankind has been on this planet for two million years and we begin with two people – or eight, it will make little difference – and they also had the statistical 2.4 children per family. We will finish up with a number so impossibly large that the universe itself would not hold them! Aware of this problem, the textbooks explain it away by speaking of “population stability throughout this time.” This is nothing short of an appeal to a miracle! Frankly, the biblical account is far more believable.
Prayer: Jesus, it was through You that all things, including us, were made. When we withdrew our love from God and cut ourselves off from Him through sin, You came to our rescue. How can I ever thank You enough? Amen.
Notes: Cleone H. Weigand. “Morality Remains the Best Way to Stem Population Growth.” Milwaukee Journal, April 14, 1985.
If Noaha and his family were white, please explain the different races through out the world, how does that happen in a few thousand years.
You’re assuming only “evolution” can do this. Get out of that rut.
I am not assuming anything, I have yet to hear any plausible explanation from anyone as to how the different races came about. It sure wasn’t from some black woman in Africa and I highly doubt the flood story anyhow. I take it you are a young earth believer?
Your rebuttal to the statement that you appear to be only accepting scientific results that fit your theological world view is to present another example of how you do that?
The article is wrong. Those believing 6000 years are followers of Bishop Usher who strained and strained to produce a chain of calculations to develop his THEORY
Six thousand years is just a theory
“Six thousand years is just a theory”
Not a scientific theory, so probably best to avoid using the word theory. Enough confusion over that word already.
His book is quite interesting. The science is indisputable, based upon the Periodic Table. I doubt you will ever read it. Luke 19:40
If one believes that God is all knowing, all powerful, all present, all just, all merciful, all loving, eternal Creator of the Universe, God With Us, then yes one’s world view is biased towards these truths.
But if one thinks of God as intellectually deceitful, powerless, absent from human history, cruel when in human history, can’t even write a book, etc…, then one doesn’t have any bias at all? No, that intellectual tradition has motives pure as the driven snow….
This all presupposes that being unbiased is a virtue. Being “unbiased” reminds me of weak men who cannot take a risk or make a big decision. They will always be children, intellectually and spiritually.
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