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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Creation/Evolution Issue #XIV
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 01:51:09 EST
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> 			  Creation/Evolution Issue #XIV
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> "Creationists, Population Growth, Bunnies and the Great Pyramid", by
> David H. Milne.  According to Henry M. Morris, extrapolation of the
> population of the world in 1800 A.D. backwards by the rate of population
> growth of the world between 1650 A.D. and 1800 A.D. shows that there were 
> just two people (guess who?) in the year 4500 B.C.  This article shows 
> how the same assumptions used by Morris lead to other conclusions, such
> as that in 2500 B.C., when the Pyramids were built, the world population
> was 750 individuals.  Since half of these were women and half of the
> remaining males were children, we must assume that the Great Pyramid was
> constructed by under 200 individuals.

Let's see...  The current world population is ~4 billion, which is close to
2^32.  The world population currently doubles every 47 years.
Extrapolating backwards, we get that there were only two people on earth
31*47=1464 years ago.  Thus the human race was created circa 500 A.D.

So much for extrapolations.
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			Greg Kuperberg
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