LOL!!
The first Egyptian dynasty started at around 3100 BC.
By uniting upper and lower Egypt.
You're not really suggesting that some 20 years after 8 people stepped on this boat, they managed to produce a collection of at least thousands of people (all of which would be the result of 1st degree incest), are you?
You can not be serious...
PS: here's a brief summary of the overal timetable of ancient egypt:
Prehistoric Egypt
- (10,500 BC) wild grain harvesting began along the Nile River Delta
- (8000 BC) humans began migrating to the Nile, developing a more centralized and settled society
- (6000 BC) single-sailed row boats were depicted in Egyptian rock art
- (4th millennium BC) Gerzean tomb-building began
3rd millennium BC
- (3900 BC) increasingly dry conditions in the Sahara caused migration to the Nile Valley
- (3100 BC) Upper and Lower Egypt unified by Pharaoh Narmer
- (3100 BC) the early Dynastic Period began; hieroglyphics developed as a formal writing system
- (3000 BC) Egyptians began to measure time based on a calendar of three natural cycles: the solar day, the lunar month, and the solar year
Funny also, how they apparantly forgot ALL about Noah and that Abrahamic religion, within 10 years of it happening. Because the religion of that time was a polytheistic system with gods like Ra, Apophis, Baal, etc etc.
Abrahamic religion will not even show up anywhere for many centuries, after that.
And let's not even get started on how many ancient Chinese settlements flourished quite happily from 8000 BC onwards.
Newsflash: while there are no real biological limits in doubling populationsize every 15 years or so... it does pose some logistics problems. All those mouths need to eat, you know.
And let's not forget the context here... You are talking about 8 people for the original population size, only 3 of which are women (if I remember correctly) and the men all being brothers with their dad. To get from 8 to thousands DOES pose many genetic problems due to the massive inbreed required.
Generally, once populations drop under 100-200, they are no longer considered viable populations, because the required scale of inbreeding is bound to create many problems.
And then we're not even discussing the complete lack of bible flood evidence in the geological record as well as the genetic record. Cause if the story is true, ALL life should have a universal genetic bottleneck due to the MASSIVE reduction in population sizes.
From whatever angle you wish to approach this, the biblical flood story is completely indefensible and extremely removed from reality.
Extremely. So much so, that I find it baffling that there are people in the west with easy access to education, libraries and the internet, who actually believe it. Mindblowing.