Read the first paragraph of post 67. The second was a form of humor. The first does debunk the link between population growth and economic wealth. If this were true, then India and China would be the most wealthy nations on the planet.
No, it doesn't. And I didn't say that population growth is the same thing as economic growth. You guys are debating a straw man of your own creation. I said that population growth produces economic growth, the unsaid provision is that all other things are held equal. With population growth, you have more producers and more consumers. That doesn't say you have a great standard of living either.
Conversely, you can't have economic growth if your market (population) size is collapsing. Fewer producers and fewer consumers can only be offset so much by increased productivity.