• NothingButBits
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    1 year ago

    What about the Great Flood? That must’ve killed hundreds of millions.

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      1 year ago

      Literal reading of Bible puts Great Flood at 2348 BCE, total population of Earth at this time is roughly estimated to be between 20 to 40 million.

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      1 year ago

      I read somewhere that at a 1.5% per year average population growth, by the time of the flood happens in the story there would be like over half a billion people alive. I haven’t checked the math or the facts.