09-03-2015, 08:12 AM
(09-03-2015, 07:44 AM)dmcowen674 Wrote:(09-03-2015, 07:16 AM)ocre Wrote: It doesn't matter how old the earth is. People can say 4 billion or 6000 yrs old but not a single person can conceive even 1000yrs.
The more interesting part is why. Why do we have to come up with a number, why is everyone pushing this version or that version. Why can't we be satisfied knowing that we may not know.......
True especially since man made up the "Year".
I beg to differ on the 1,000 years though. 3 or 4 generations covers 100 years roughly so extrapolating out 10 more times is not a stretch.
My wife is into Genealogy and she has gone back 9 generations 300 years so far.
Hey, let's say that each generation has 5 surviving kids per family on average (before birth control), and it all started from one couple: 5 kids has 5 kids each = 25, then 125. That's the first 100 years
Then 125x5 = 625, then x 5 = 3125, then x 5 = 15625 within 200 years
Then x 5 = 78125, then x 5 = 390625, then x 5 = 1953125 within 300 years (that's like the population of Cyprus)!
Then x 5 = 9765725, then x 5 = 48 million, then x 5 = 240 million within 400 years (nearly the population of the United States)!
Dare we go for 500 years? We'd already reach a billion people within just 1 more generation, let alone 3 more generations before reaching 500 years! Of course, wars, famine, etc.. all slow this down, but if people could live 900 years - just imagine!!! Hahahahahaha..
Well, the world has "transformed" in unimaginable ways within the past 100 years or so anyway!