Justin Thomas

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats Let's give your prophets 300K years. Starting pop of 500. growth of 0.05% per year. By now you ought to have 10 to the 62nd (10 with 62 zeroes) people on this earth. My two people 4500 years ago yields a paltry 10 to the 54th. (10 with 54 zeroes).

Is math your friend here?

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats You had a massive head start so... Where is everybody???

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats So let's apply your "logic and reason". Your prophets claim 50-500 is the minimum viable population. I claim two is. If my claim lacks veracity because we don't have enough people but your claim starts with orders of magnitude MORE people then I guess your claim is dead. Right?

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats ANY population growth matches what my numbers require because my numbers can generate more people than you can imagine. You're such a dope that you're now arguing that the absence of trillions of people is evidence against a small starting population LOL

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats "It just wasn't!"

Wow! You're very intelligent. I wish I could produce such wisdom.

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats so I cite this as my evidence. Your rebuttal seems to be "Na-uh you're dumb let me cite an article!" and frankly that's not very strong evidence to the contrary

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats You cited a scientific study, not transcendental priors. Sorry pal but even though I'm a very dim and dense boy I know an attribution when I see one. Now let's proceed. So 8 people could repopulate the earth. 20 seals repopulated the seas. Flood stories are very common..

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats Does math not track reality, by the way? If it's mathematically possible then it's also realistically possible unless you want to deny math.

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats Already existed... So what? Are you really just saying "The Sumerians wrote the tale down first!!"? I'll grant it. Costs me nothing. The Hebrews were nomadic shepherds, not a regional power. Is it a surprise that it took them longer to develop writing and record the event?

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats The northern elephant seal recovered from a bottleneck of 20-30 members into the hundreds of thousands but sure let's take what you just copy-pasted as granted lol

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats No need to delve into your ancestry. Could two people generate billions of people over 4500 years or not?

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats So let's go with just two people over 4500 years. At 25 years per generation that yields 180 generations. You're smart - do you think two to the one hundred and eightieth power is a small number or a massive one?

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats I think exponential population growth is a very real thing yes. 5 X 5 X 5 X 5 and so on for even one hundred generations is a very big number.

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats What's your argument against? The existence of people who survived? But the Bible says Noah and his family survived and repopulated the earth. I wonder if the people you're referencing might have been descendants of people who existed???

Much to ponder

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats Yeah. Global inundation, everything but the righteous man and the animals destroyed. My kid could explain it to you but this has nothing to do with the epistemic status of the miracle.

Much water, much death. Recorded by many disparate cultures.

What's your evidence against??

[Justin Thomas @Footofthepath]

@1Quetzalcoatl1 @MartinTweats Anyways Christian tradition explains why some peoples forgot the flood and why there are many variations. Have you even read Genesis? Do you know what I'm referring to?