[albionin]

The author of this article is failing to recognize a crucial point, which totally falsifies his theory of what the population would be if the 2 million year figure is correct. He is forgetting that farming didn’t start until about 12,000 years ago and before that man was a hunter gatherer. Take away farming and animal husbandry and large scale fishing and what would the population be today. Hell, take away the internal combustion engine and billions of people would die within a year. Imagine today’s population living by hunting and gathering and you’ll see that his “theory” is nonsense. It was farming and domestication of animals that allowed the population to start to grow, so it is entirely plausible that the population remained low for almost all of those 2 million years and then ballooned after farming was invented. Assuming a steady growth rate over the 2 million years is absurd.

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So, first off, let’s establish that you don’t believe the Bible, correct?

I don’t mean that as any kind of condemnation for purposes of this discussion, but it’s important to establish.

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He [Author] is forgetting that farming didn’t start until about 12,000 years ago and before that man was a hunter gatherer.

And where do you get the unexamined, indeterminable "fact" that farming didn't start until about 12,000 years ago? You can't "forget" something that is conjecture.