i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
jgnat, yes.. it's really the Carbon-14 I was questioning.
So as a christian how do you balance man being around for 100s of thousands of years with Jesus Christ and what he taught and his reasons for coming to earth? Wouldn't it negate it? (just asking out of interest) :)
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Adding God to it isn't a case of it 'helping'. I see the complexity of the single cell and the DNA code and find it impossible to believe it evolved like that. That is the evidence I see. Also that a huge amount of life came about very suddenly during the Cambrian age.
If changes came from animals reproducing and passing their DNA on and different species come about, I can accept that but the code within the cell that acts like a blueprint... I just see intelligent design.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Sorry Cofty, I'll try to explain. I'm not very good at this sort of thing which I why I ask questions instead of stating anything.
I don't believe in a young earth and I believe in animal evolution to a certain extent but believe God's hand was in it at certain stages.
When it comes to man I can believe that he's been on earth longer than what the bible suggests but not as long as evolution suggests. One of the problems I have accepting it is the incredibly slow growth needed to support it. Mathematically it just doesn't make sense to me. It's as if man's growth was stagnant for 490,000 years and then took off in the last few thousand years.
And for radiometric dating to be 100% accurate wouldn't you have to be sure that the atmosphere now is the same as it was when the object you are looking at first appeared/died?
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Considering I was told at the start to 'go away and read a book and stop asking questions'... it's funny how I go away and come back and find this thread has taken on a life of it's own.... LOL
Fascinating stuff though...
I've been thinking a bot more about my original questions and haven't come across anything that has convinced me yet. Even the radiometric dating doesn't seem to be fool proof.
A few statistics.... they say man was about a population of 1 million about 10, 000 years ago. There are about 4 generations (for arguments sake) in 100 years. So to get from 2 people doubling each generation (going by the bacteria illustration), that would be roughly 20 generations. At that very slow rate it would take only 500 years to reach a million. We are talking about 500,000 years, a thousand times longer!
Another thing... all those millions, possibly billions of ancient bones/skeletons...... where are they?
damn!
how can you go around telling people that!
?.
Sounds just like the Pharisees that Jesus saw standing in the street, looking up to heaven and saying 'Thank God I'm not like these sinners!'
Jesus didn't think that much of them....
i rarely watch fox news.
but i do read the drudge report every day.
on drudge, there are tons of newspaper links which i typically read from..
Usually BBC news on TV. No newspapers but if there's something interesting I'll read articles online from news sites like the Guardian.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Thanks for all your answers everyone, they've been very interesting to read and some good explanations
Thanks especially to Randy for your in depth answer, you make some thought provoking points and I really appreciate the gracious way you've put your points over and for not making me feel stupid a time waster for asking the question.
Vidot, you make some good points about christianity.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
LOL@DD... Love the prairie dog.. heheh
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Cofty, I'm not asking for help and I'm not dismissing answers. I'm merely interested to find out what others think and expressing what I think, that's all. It doesn't mean that I'm not going to continue finding the answers for myself.
Since I discovered TTATT my head has been full of questions and I've been reading all sorts of different things on various subjects. I come across books or articles alluded to on here and spend hours reading them. It's just that the more I read the more questions there are. About everything!
I just thought this was an intriguing question when I stumbled across something and wanted to know what you guys had to say about it.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
I will read up about it, I was just interested to know what ones on here have to say about it. Do I not have the right to ask? Different people will have different thoughts on both sides of the arguement. I'm not interested in 'showing up' anyone... why would I want to do that?
It doesn't matter to me whether someone believes something different to me. In fact I find it fascinating that everyone will have different ideas on all subjects. That's why this place is so awesome.
