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Life on board the Ark
"When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." 1 Peter 3:20
All land creatures and humans perished as a result of the flood, sent as a consequence of man's wickedness. When Noah and his family, eight souls in total, left the ark after 371 days, they stepped into a silent world where every mouth had been stopped. From these eight individuals God was going to set about re-populating the planet. The life on the ark was the means of propagating life on the earth. No doubt the scoffers and sceptics will object, saying "Surely the present world population, with its multitude of millions, could not have come about in such a relatively short space of time from only eight people."
Counting Heads
We shall use one or two facts and figures from an interesting Creation Science Movement paper (no.301-1995) entitled Population Growth by Paul Nicholls to show the hypothesis is indeed viable.
The lowest average population increase in Great Britain from 1801 onwards was 0.43% and occurred between 1939 and 1951. The figure was distorted because of the Second World War which claimed the lives of multitudes.
According to the March census of 1801 the population of Great Britain was counted as 10,500,956 and in the April census of 1991 the population had grown to 54,156,067. This works out as an average yearly increase of 0.87%.
The Bible dates the flood as taking place some 4,400 years ago. Let us use the lowest growth rate and the average growth rate and see how long it would take to reach the present world population from eight people.
The lowest growth rate (0.43%) gives a time-span of 4,738 years.
The average growth rate (0.87%) gives a time-span of only 2,347 years.
The lowest recorded growth rate we have for Western Europe is 0.377%. Let us imagine that mankind (Homo sapien) has been around for say, 50,000 years; a figure that is just a fraction of the time evolutionists claim. Using this 0.377% figure, after 50,000 years the world would be a staggering 1082
or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
"This is more than the estimated number of particles in the universe"
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