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This graph shows how evolutionary anthropologists imagine the growth of the world's human population. Here's population, here's time from then to now.

The anthropologists think the first true humans (cro-magnon and neanderthal) appeared about 100,000 years ago. They think humans grew rapidly until the available land limited how much food they could hunt and gather, and that the population stopped growing, staying at some level between 1 million and 10 million people. (I've picked the lower number to be generous to the evolutionist again.)

They think it stayed that way for nearly 100,000 years until someone discovered agriculture about 5000 years ago. Then the population grew rapidly to the billions we have today.

Now here's the point. If the population stayed level, that means as many people died every generation as were born. That means at least a million people died every generation. In 4000 generations, 4 billion people would have died, about one stone-age skeleton for every person alive on the planet today!

Evidence for a Young World
D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.