(February 12, 2013 at 6:38 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote:(February 12, 2013 at 6:30 pm)John V Wrote: Open excel
Type 6 in a cell (Noah's 3 sons and their wives)
Make the cell below it equal to 1.5 times the first cell (i.e. each couple had three surviving children)
Take this second cell and autofill down
You get to 7 billion really fast
Two wordseople die.
And on top of that, life expectancy back than was much lower.
Life expectancy variation over time.
And all of the things that killed people back then that most people (who aren't in the third world) don't have to deal with now.
Well, except for those biblical freaks of nature (900 year Adam, 600 year old Noah). Doesn't anyone think that 600 year old Noah is weird enough (who is a Christian)?