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re: Ethnical Ancesty stemming from Noah
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:22 pm to mbogo
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:22 pm to mbogo
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A lot of people adamantly say similar things...until they face a terminal illness or some life and death scenario. Then they become much less sure of their beliefs.
Adamant? Question. How do you think the Greek myths were formed? Roman myths? Islam, which was made 600 years or so after Christianity? How did these fairy tales become reality to some people? Why are you so adamant that their beliefs are fairy tales and yours aren't? That's the only think I am being adamant about. I'd love Christianity to be true. Divine forgiveness from the creator? That's a powerful message. Yet, it's in a book of fairy tales.
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Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:23 pm to Person of interest
The 35K year estimates are based on the current population. They are using current populations and extrapolating backward.
Taking a certain number of people at a certain time in history is a different matter. If you want to believe it is just a coincidence that the number of people on the ark coincides with the current population...that's alright.
Taking a certain number of people at a certain time in history is a different matter. If you want to believe it is just a coincidence that the number of people on the ark coincides with the current population...that's alright.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:23 pm to mbogo
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There is one little interesting thing about Noah's ark. Population experts say that if you took the people described on it and extrapolated the population of the earth, the population of the earth would be in the range it is in currently.
No they don't.
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If you go back thousands of years there is no way to account for the current population even considering all possibilities.
Yes there is.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:24 pm to mbogo
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If you want to believe it is just a coincidence that the number of people on the ark coincides with the current population...that's alright.
Nothing you're saying is based in reality.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:37 pm to Recruitingjunkie
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Ethnical Ancesty stemming from Noah
Damn Tbird been busy
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:41 pm to Agforlife
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:45 pm to mbogo
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extrapolating backward.
That would be how medieval Christians figured the age of the earth.
James Ussher
Posted on 1/22/15 at 4:51 pm to mbogo
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If you want to believe it is just a coincidence that the number of people on the ark coincides with the current population...that's alright.
I don't have the social skills necessary to respond to something like this.
This post was edited on 1/22/15 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 1/22/15 at 5:06 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 1/22/15 at 6:30 pm to mbogo
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There is one little interesting thing about Noah's ark. Population experts say that if you took the people described on it and extrapolated the population of the earth, the population of the earth would be in the range it is in currently. If you go back thousands of years there is no way to account for the current population even considering all possibilities.
This is easily the most mind-boggling claim I have seen on the OTB. Of course there's no supportive link. Why would there be? It came straight out of somebody's arse.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 7:18 pm to Kentucker
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This is easily the most mind-boggling claim I have seen on the OTB. Of course there's no supportive link. Why would there be? It came straight out of somebody's arse.
It's based on estimates of actual population numbers which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, started in 1804 when the population of the Earth was 1 billion and now is 7 billion, 211 years later.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 9:29 pm to mbogo
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It's based on estimates of actual population numbers which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, started in 1804 when the population of the Earth was 1 billion and now is 7 billion, 211 years later.
You seriously can't believe what you're saying right now.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 9:40 pm to mbogo
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There is one little interesting thing about Noah's ark. Population experts say that if you took the people described on it and extrapolated the population of the earth, the population of the earth would be in the range it is in currently. If you go back thousands of years there is no way to account for the current population even considering all possibilities.
I think there is, since there are things known as plagues, wars, floods, famine, droughts, lack of basic hygiene or knowledge of medicine, among other things. The population roughly doubling every other generation is a very recent thing and you have to be incredibly ignorant of history at large not to see this.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 9:45 pm to mbogo
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It's based on estimates of actual population numbers which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, started in 1804 when the population of the Earth was 1 billion and now is 7 billion, 211 years later.
No, it comes from absolute idiots who take 2 people and double them every 2 generations without taking literally everything else in account. People weren't living into their 70s at that time and usually died around their mid 30s or even younger. About a 1/3 of infants didn't survive. Then there were non-stop wars and raids on villages, and they had no concept of medicine or hygiene, plus other natural disasters. Really just putting the Black Death into account screws your measurements up, not to mention the other hundreds of wars and plagues.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 11:30 pm to OMLandshark
So, there hasn't been non-stop wars, plagues, natural disasters, infant deaths, famines, etc. the last 211 years? Of course they factored those. If you extrapolate backward, using the population stats we know today and factor in all available info on past plagues/wars/disasters you can only get back to around the time frame of Noah, give or take a little. There is no way to get back to the evolutionary version of history without a similar occurrence to the flood.
This post was edited on 1/23/15 at 12:05 am
Posted on 1/23/15 at 7:46 am to OMLandshark
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People weren't living into their 70s at that time and usually died around their mid 30s or even younger.
But don't forget, it wasn't unheard of for people to live hundreds of years in the bible...Noah was 600 during the flood, and the oldest person mentioned was Methuselah at 969.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 8:19 am to mbogo
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to around the time frame of Noah, give or take a little
When do you think the time frame of Noah was?
Posted on 1/23/15 at 8:56 am to Person of interest
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When do you think the time frame of Noah was?
Jewish tradition places the flood in 2104 BCE.
So....4,119 years ago
Posted on 1/23/15 at 2:45 pm to mbogo
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mbogo
On the scale of "Forrest Gump" to "I Am Sam", how retarded are you? We know you're retarded, I'm just trying to find out to what extent.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 3:46 pm to crispyUGA
That sounds like a loaded question :), but since I am a Bama fan...
I will also ask you a question: when you call people such names...is it because it is normal for you or was this an anomaly due to being stirred by my posts to act in such a manner?
I will also ask you a question: when you call people such names...is it because it is normal for you or was this an anomaly due to being stirred by my posts to act in such a manner?
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