blipey
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| Quote (Henry J @ Nov. 10 2011,13:22) | | For that population rate computation, keep in mind the number of people that had to be in Egypt at the time the pyramids were built. |
Ooh, this is fun.
Given the FLOOD was 4500 years ago and the population of the world at the height of the Egyptian empire (2030 BC) was 23,000,000ish, lets see if that gibes.
I plugged in modern day death rates (generous on my part I think).
I used a birth rate of every woman of childbearing age having 4 children in their lives.
What number do we come up with?
10,040 people. We seem to be short a few.
Well, people had lots and lots of children then. And let's put in a more probable set of death rates. Let's go with:
births per childbearing woman = 8
Death rates: 1000, 6000, 3000, 7000 (Which I think is still very generous, 1% infant mortality and lots elderly still bopping about in ancient times).
We get 23ish million people.
Are these parameters correct, forastero?
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