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Just a quick heads up the Bible study was a resounding success. People felt the population growth models were reasonable assuming God removed disease and made food readily available after the flood; they also really enjoyed AV1611’s take on Ham’s sin in Genesis 9. Some of us are old-earth...

You would have to contact the CMI or the paper’s authors, since the paper describing the model is somewhat vague and that’s all we can go on. In the model, every woman has, on average, just under 10 children. This is a high number, but not completely out of line compared to, say, mid-20th...

I don’t know how things are in England (but I have family there so I should ask them), but here in the states about 40% of the people believe that God created humans in our present form 10,000 years ago and while the number seems to be decreasing the number bounced back up a bit in 2019. I felt...

I’ll leave that question for readers to answer. I can not comment on the details of the CMI model, but I can give details of my own model where we go from eight people to 12 million people in 250 years: 48% of births are male, 52% are female The CMI model checks to see if a woman is married...

I’m surprised GodDidIt didn’t make it to that Bingo chart. One thing I have seen among strong atheists is an almost, well, religious level of offense to “GodDidIt” solutions to issues with the young earth model. For the record, I’m of the old earth model but have friends with a young earth...

Going back to the topic of this thread, Creation Ministries International has also made a computer model of population growth, based on real world data: Biblical human population growth model - creation.com A model I have, which, yes, includes death, not immediately getting pregnant after...

This is actually very helpful. When we were reading Genesis 9 last week, we were all scratching our heads about why God would be so harsh about someone accidentally seeing their father naked. I appreciate and will share with my Bible study your insight. It’s very spiritually healthy to read the...

You did not say anything whatsoever hurtful or offensive to me, and I apologize for any miscommunication which implied otherwise. Since you seem to prefer Twitter-sized replies, this paragraph is under 280 characters. Thank you for bringing up that story. It is something I will bring up at the...

Well, just because I don’t believe there’s a time traveler from Gallifrey who travels around in a spaceship which looks like a mid-20th-century blue British phone booth doesn’t mean I’m not interested in having some solution to the UNIT dating inconsistencies those stories have. There’s value in...

The issue may be something as simple as a calibration error because NASA has not been able to fully calibrate the telescope yet: Distant Galaxies Spotted by James Webb May Not Be So Distant Due to Errors Personally, I have no issue with Big Bang cosmology being falsified or drastically revised...

You have not made a single comment about the topic of this thread, which is the supposed repopulation after Noah’s family of eight people left the ark. Moving goal posts indeed.

Well, let me go back to the topic of this thread, and ignore the whataboutism about whether it’s the Mediterranean or Black sea where a deluge could had happened. To believe the literal worldwide flood requires repopulating the entire world with only 8 people starting around 3000 BCE. It...

Yes, it is a matter of pedantry, and yes I put some real thought in to the theory. Well, more like, I read about the Black Sea stuff and talked to a friend about it two decades ago, saw the remains at the bottom of the Black Sea, and decided it was plausible. I then heard years later from a...

I am content with a universe which does not need an atheistic world view to explain everything in it. If this were, say, RationalWiki, that would be a different ball game, but remember that this is Christianforums and while the mods and admins here do allow people with a purely naturalistic...

Here’s the source code. It’s written in Lua 5.1, tested and runs in both Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.3. #!/usr/bin/env lua -- Public domain (or BSD0 if you must have a formal copyright and license) -- By Sam Trenholme 2022 local people = {} -- Population local thisWeek = 0 -- Weeks after -2370 (2370...

I do not think anyone who takes the Noah’s Ark story seriously is using the scientific method, and, indeed, a lot of posters here are not using the scientific method. It’s like Doctor Who fans trying to solve the UNIT dating controversy where liberal “GodDidIt” explanations are made as needed...

Since we’re going through the story of Noah’s Ark in our Bible study, I have revisited the post-flood re-population problem. Summary: I did come up with a model that doesn’t require completely suspending disbelief to have the world repopulate to a reasonable (namely, enough people to build the...

In my case, it’s not a case of “love is love”: My personal morality (read: My interpretation of sacred scripture and discernment of God’s will for me) is that I can not be in a gay relationship, because that is an unnatural desire for me. One man, one woman, for life. Nothing else is allowed for...

Exactly. When Jesus talks about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, he does so at Mark 3:29; the context is people saying Jesus was using the devil to cure people of sickness. The devil does not do positive changes and miracles in people’s lives; to claim that someone performing miracles for God...

(Necrothread comment: These comments were made about a month after I took a break from CF, so I am finally addressing them) Alcoholism is a hard illness to treat. A 7% improvement is remarkably good; no matter what we throw at alcoholism, we get this “dodo bird” effect where everything has...