Prometevsberg

There is some discussion on the number of people killed by god according to the Bible. One of the difficulties enumerating the victims is that no number are given for the population that was drowned in the Flood. However, since we are blessed with the presence of scientific creationists in this topic, could they share with us their estimates of the earths population at the time of the Flood, given the age of the Earth they postulate? This would be invaluable help to the project.

Dr Rick

This is a good subject but would garner more interest in another forum.

Rick

tronvillain

There were no victims - the leprechauns saved them all, so God cursed the leprechauns with the rainbow.

Prometevsberg

This is a good subject but would garner more interest in another forum.


..and I found myself here, moved from the creation/evolution forum back here, where it is a mere repeat of my reponse to Mike Rosofts post below
I need a number from the creationists, who seem to be the only one who takes the story of the Flood literally..and they lurk in creation/evolution.

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Prometevsberg

....so I have to do some research on my owb,and at <a href="http://www.ldolphin.org/morris.html" target="_blank">http://www.ldolphin.org/morris.html</a> I find the shocking calculation,
Antediluvian Populations

According to the genealogical records of Genesis 5, there were 1,656 years from Adam to the Flood. However, the population constants were significantly different then from what-they now are. Men lived to great ages and evidently had large families. Excepting Enoch, who was taken into heaven without dying at age 365 (Gen. 5:23-24), the average of the recorded ages of the nine antediluvian patriarchs was 912 years. Recorded ages at the births of their children ranged from 65 years (Mahalaleel, Gen. 5:15; Enoch, Gen. 5:2 1) to 500 years (Noah, Gen. 5:32). Every one of them is said to have had "sons and daughters," so that each family had at least 4 children, and probably many more.

As an ultraconservative assumption, let c = 3, x = 5, and n = 16.56. These constants correspond to an average family of 6 children, an average generation of 100 years and an average life-span of 500 years. On this basis the world population at the time of the Flood would have been 235 million people. This probably represents a gross underestimate of the numbers who actually perished in the Flood.

Multiplication was probably more rapid than assumed in this calculation, especially in the earliest centuries of the antediluvian epoch. For example, if the average family size were 8, instead of 6, and the length of a generation 93 years, instead of 100, the population at the time of Adam's death, 930 years after his creation, would already have been 2,800,000. At these rates, the population at the time of the Deluge would have been 137 billion! Even if we use rates appropriate in the present world (x = I and c = 1.5), over 3 billion people could easily have been on the earth at the time of Noah. <img src="graemlins/boohoo.gif" border="0" alt="[Boo Hoo]" />
the god of love indeed....

Pantera

Moving back to E/C by popular demand.