The population of the world, based upon the Berlin census reports of
1922, was found to be 1,804,187,000. The human race must double
itself 30.75 times to make this number. This result may be
approximately ascertained by the following computation:--
At the beginning of the first period of doubling there would just be
two human beings; the second, 4; the third, 8; the fourth, 16; the
tenth, 1024; the twentieth, 1,048,576, the thirtieth, 1,073,741,824;
and the thirty-first, 2,147,483,648. In other words, if we raise two
to the thirtieth power, we have 1,073,741,824; or to the thirty-first
power, 2,147,483,648. Therefore, it is evident even to the school boy,
that, to have the present population of the globe, the net population
must be doubled more than thirty times and less than thirty-one
times. By logarithms, we find it to be 30.75 times. After all
allowances are made for natural deaths, wars, catastrophes, and losses
of all kinds, if the human race would double its numbers 30.75 times,
we would have the present population of the globe.
Now, according to the chronology of Hales, based on the Septuagint
text, 5077 years have elapsed since the flood, and 5177 years since
the ancestors of mankind numbered only two, Noah and his wife. By
dividing 5177 by 30.75, we find it requires an average of 168.3 years
for the human race to double its numbers, in order to make the present
population. This is a reasonable average length of time.
Moreover, it is singularly confirmed by the number of Jews, or
descendants of Jacob. According to Hales, 3850 years have passed since
the marriage of Jacob. By the same method of calculation as above, the
Jews, who, according to the Jewish yearbook for 1922, number
15,393,815, must have doubled their numbers 23.8758 times, or once
every 161.251 years. The whole human race, therefore, on an average
has doubled its numbers every 168.3 years; and the Jews, every 161.251
years. What a marvelous agreement! We would not expect the figures to
be exactly the same nor be greatly surprised if one period were twice
the other. But their correspondence singularly corroborates the age of
the human race and of the Jewish people, as gleaned from the word of
God by the most proficient chronologists. If the human race is
2,000,000 years old, the period of doubling would be 65,040 years, or
402 times that of the Jews, which, of course, is unthinkable.
While the period of doubling may vary slightly in different ages, yet
there are few things so stable and certain as general average, where
large numbers and many years are considered, as in the present
case. No life insurance company, acting on general average statistics,
ever failed on that account. The Jews and the whole human race have
lived together the same thirty-eight centuries with very little
intermarriage, and are affected by similar advantages and
disadvantages, making the comparison remarkably fair.
Also, the 25,000,000 descendants of Abraham must have doubled their
numbers every 162.275 years, during the 3,988 years since the birth of
his son Ishmael. These periods of doubling which tally so closely,
168.3 years for the whole race, 161.251 for the Jews, and 162.275
years for the descendants of Abraham, cannot be a mere coincidence,
but are a demonstration against the great age of man required by
evolution, and in favor of the 5,177 years since Noah. None of the
other various chronologies would make any material difference in these
calculations. The correspondence of these figures, 168.3, 161.251 and
162.275 is so remarkable that it must bring the conviction to every
serious student that the flood destroyed mankind and Noah became the
head of the race.
Now the evolutionists claim that the human race is 2,000,000 years
old. There is no good reason for believing that, during all these
years the developing dominant species would not increase as rapidly as
the Jews, or the human race in historic times, especially since the
restraints of civilization and marriage did not exist. But let us
generously suppose that these remote ancestors, beginning with one
pair, doubled their numbers in 1612.51 years, one-tenth as rapidly as
the Jews, or 1240 times in 2,000,000 years. If we raise 2 to the
1240th power, the result is 18,932,139,737,991 with 360 figures
following. The population of the world, therefore, would have been
18,932,139,737,991 decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion,
decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion; or
18,932,139,737,991 vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion,
vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion.
Or, let us suppose that man, the dominant species, originated from a
single pair, only 100,000 years ago, the shortest period suggested by
any evolutionist (and much too short for evolution) and that the
population doubled in 1612.51 years, one-tenth the Jewish rate of net
increase, a most generous estimate. The present population of the
globe should be 4,660,210,253,138,204,300 or 2,527,570,733 for every
man, woman and child! In these calculations, we have made greater
allowances than any self-respecting evolutionist could ask without
blushing. And yet withal, it is as clear as the light of day that the
ancestors of man could not possibly have lived 2,000,000 or 1,000,000
or 100,000 years ago, or even 10,000 years ago; for if the population
had increased at the Jewish rate for 10,000 years, it would be more
than two billion times as great as it is. No guess that ever was made,
or ever can be made, much in excess of 5177 years, can possibly stand
as the age of man. The evolutionist cannot sidestep this argument by a
new guess. Q. E. D.
All these computations have been made upon the supposition that the
human race sprang from one pair. If from many in the distant past, as
the evolutionists assert, these bewildering figures must be enormously
increased.
Yet we are gravely told that evolution is "science". It is the wildest
guess ever made to support an impossible theory.
That their guesses can not possibly be correct, is proven also by
approaching the subject from another angle. If the human race is
2,000,000 years old, and must double its numbers 30.75 times to make
the present population, it is plain that each period for doubling
would be 65,040 years, since {2,000,000/30.75} = 65,040. At that rate,
there would be fewer than four Jews! If we suppose the race to have
sprung from one pair 100,000 years ago, it would take 3252 years to
double the population. At this rate, there would be five Jews!
Do we need any other demonstration that the evolution of man is an
absurdity and an impossibility? If the evolutionists endeavor to show
that man _may_ have descended from the brute, the population of
the world conclusively shows that MAN CERTAINLY DID NOT DESCEND FROM
THE BRUTE. If they ever succeed in showing that all species of animals
_may_ have been derived from one primordial germ, it is
impossible that man so came. He was created as the Bible declares, by
the Almighty Power of God.
The testimony of all the experts in the famous Scopes trial in
Tennessee (who escaped cross-examination) was to the effect that
evolution was in harmony with _some_ facts and therefore
_possibly true_. The above mathematical calculations prove that
the evolution of man was certainly not true. They fail to make their
case even if we grant their claims. These figures prove the Bible
story, and scrap every guess of the great age and the brute origin of
man. It will be observed that the above calculations point to the
unity of the race in the days of Noah, 5177 years ago, rather than in
the days of Adam 7333 years ago, according to Hales' chronology. If
the race increased at the Jewish rate, not over 16,384 perished by the
Flood, fewer than by many a modern catastrophe. This most merciful
providence of God started the race anew with a righteous head.
Now, if there had been no flood to destroy the human race, then the
descendants of Adam, in the 7333 years, would have been 16,384 times
the 1,804,187,000, or 29,559,799,808,000; or computed at the Jewish
rate of net increase for 7333 years since Adam, the population would
have been still greater, or 35,184,372,088,832. These calculations are
in perfect accord with the Scripture story of the special creation of
man, and the destruction of the race by a flood. Had it not been for
the flood, the earth could not have sustained the descendants of
Adam. Is not this a demonstration, decisive and final?