How many people have lived on this planet?

[Maximus]

You have to remember that back then people lived to be 1000 years old. You can do a lot of procreation in that time.

Secondly, remember that we started over after the deluge. So we really only have about 4000 years.

Thirdly, you can't just account for human parents. There are the angels that sired kids on human women.

You have to work all that into the model.

[merithyn]

 

[Caliga]

Seige: this whole exercise is a fool's errand. 

[DisturbedPervert]

You'd have to calculate it in two stages, before and after the flood

[Ed Anger]

Siege would enjoy the creationist museum.

[Caliga]

@ DP:  Love how there were more people on earth prior to the Flood than now.  What nutcase produced that graph?

[Fate]

Why did we fuck more before the flood than after? I missed that part in catechism class.

[Maximus]

Because we lived longer, as I said.

[Fate]

That makes no sense. If a pre-flood human had an average life span of a thousand years its reproductive practices would become much more circumspect. Rabbits only breed like rabbits because they live for such a short period of time.

[Grey Fox]

Sure, that's the part that makes no sense.

[The Minsky Moment]

That makes no sense. If a pre-flood human had an average life span of a thousand years its reproductive practices would become much more circumspect.

Be fruitful and multiply.
No one ever told the J-source about the demographic transition.

[The Minsky Moment]

109 947 781 641 people in 1998.

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Ecology/The%20Number%20of%20People%20That%20Have%20Ever%20Lived.htm

50,000 years, freaking god-fearer. Evolution is FACT.

How can I do the math starting 6000 years ago?

That will be a little tough.
The math part is easy - just do follow Grey Fox's link.

Doing the math 6000 years ago is a challenge, however - you will have to get a time machine to bring you back, and that is probably impossible.

The good news is that math doesn't change over time so when you perform the calculations temporally shouldn't matter.

[DisturbedPervert]

@ DP:  Love how there were more people on earth prior to the Flood than now.  What nutcase produced that graph?

http://ldolphin.org/popul.html

[Zanza]

Why does the graph with the flood allow for negative numbers of humans?

[Grey Fox]

That's sure is a lot of references for something that makes no sense.