Section 1 Chapter 8 – Only 8 survivors
This chapter is in honor of the 8 survivors of the global flood and their reliance on the God of heaven. According to the bible, four thousand five hundred years ago human life on the planet had a global reset. The human population was eliminated but for the exception of 8 individuals, those that survived the global flood. Anthropological estimates would place the world population just where we find it today (approx. 7.5 billion), within a span of 4,500 years of human development. If one were to run the numbers without the flood event, and the global reset it produced, human population would be grossly higher. Some evolutionists believe that human development has involved over 100,000 years.
Notice the Smithsonian Museum’s account; By 6 million years ago: Early humans had evolved upright posture and the ability to walk upright on short legs. Male canine teeth were about equal in size to females’, which indicates a significant shift in social life.
By 4.1 million years ago: Broad knee joints indicate clear adaptation to regular bipedal walking.
By 3.6 million years ago: Oldest definite early human footprint trails, with footprints of other animals and environmental evidence.
By 2.6 million years ago: Early humans made basic tools and ate meat obtained from large animals.
By 2.5 million years ago: Clear evidence of a double-curved spine, which indicates a shock-absorbing system associated with bipedal walking.
By 1.9 million years ago: Robust hip bone and lengthened thigh bone indicate that human ancestors could walk farther, faster and more easily.
By 1.8 million years ago: Early humans dispersed from Africa to Asia.
By 1.6 million years ago: First major technological innovation. Hand axes are made. Hand-axe technology persists for more than 1.2 million years.
By 800,000 years ago: Early humans had control of fire and created hearths.
At 800,000 years ago: Beginning of the most rapid increase in early human brain size (relative to body size). The fastest pace of brain enlargement took place between 800,000 and 200,000 years ago.
By 500,000 years ago: Evidence of brain enlargement implies considerably prolonged maturation of the young. Early humans hunted large animals.
By 400,000 years ago: Early humans made shelters. Early humans invented wooden thrusting spears.
250,000 years ago: Early humans began to communicate with symbols—with evidence of the oldest known “crayons” (faceted sticks and chunks of pigment).
200,000 years ago: Modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa; they gathered and hunted food, like earlier human species. The date of 200,000 years is based on the oldest known H. sapiens crania and the estimated age of convergence (back in time) of all the mitochondrial DNA diversity recorded in living human populations. Three species of early humans overlapped in time with H. sapiens. The other three species became extinct between about 70,000 and 17,000 years ago.
By 164,000 years ago: Modern humans collected and cooked shellfish.
By 160,000 years ago: Modern humans had evolved prolonged periods of childhood growth, as found in people today.
Between 135,000-100,000 years ago: Modern humans temporarily spread beyond Africa. Modern humans made shell beads, the oldest known jewelry.
By 130,000 years ago: Modern humans exchanged resources over long distances.
By 104,000 years ago: Modern humans became capable of capturing fast and dangerous prey.
By 100,000 years ago: Earliest recorded purposeful burial.
Between 100,000-32,000 years ago: Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) created rare carved plaques and pendants.
By 90,000 years ago: Modern humans made special tools for fishing.
By 77,000 years ago: Modern humans recorded information on objects. Modern humans became capable of making clothing by perforating hide.
About 74,000 years ago: Near extinction of H. sapiens. Greatly reduced population, with numbers estimated at about 10,000 adults of reproductive age to as few as 600. Timing correlates with repeated, large-scale droughts in portions of Africa.
By 70,000 years ago: Homo erectus became extinct.
By 60,000 years ago: Modern humans began a series of permanent worldwide migrations.
By 60,000–40,000 years ago: Modern humans created permanent drawings.
By 50,000 years ago: Modern humans reached Australia.
By 40,000 years ago: Modern humans reached Europe.
By 40,000-35,000 years ago: Modern humans created paintings and figurines.
By 35,000 years ago: Modern humans created musical instruments.
By 30,000–24,000 years ago: Modern humans became capable of making well-fitted clothing using bone needles.
By 28,000 years ago: Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) became extinct.
By 26,000 years ago: Modern humans made baskets.
By 17,000 years ago: H. floresiensis became extinct, leaving modern humans (H. sapiens) as the sole survivors of the once diverse human evolutionary tree.
By 15,000 years ago: Modern humans reached the Americas (by at least this date).
Beginning 12,000 years ago: Humans become a “turning point” in the history of life as they control the growth and breeding of certain plants and animals. Farming and herding ensue, which transformed natural landscapes—first locally, then globally. Food production led to settlement (villages, towns, cities) and population growth.
By 10,500 years ago: First domestication of plants and animals.
By 8,000 years ago: Modern humans use symbols to represent words and concepts.
Between 1959 and 1999: Human population doubled from 3 billion to 6 billion people in just 40 years.
By 1995: At least 83 percent of Earth’s land surface had been directly affected by humans.
By 2007: More humans live in cities than in rural areas.
In 2012: Human population is expected to reach about 7 billion.
This is the typical thinking of most evolutionists as contrasted to the bibles account of about 6 thousand years of human existence. There would be many things to question from a creationist’s perspective. The reason I recorded the Smithsonian Museum’s list was to reveal the absurdity of so much time for human population development. If, as they estimate from 1959 to 1999 the population doubled from 3 to 6 billion in just 40 years (which is true). How could they ever think to build into their theory 100,000 plus years of modern human population development, the current world population number would be much, much higher than 7.5 billion today.
Try this; take one penny and double it for thirty days. If I offered you $1,000,000 or the total of that calculation, which would benefit you the most? By far the doubling of the penny would be your best pick. In 4,500 years, we went from 8 individuals to 7.5 billion (according to the bible), that seems reasonable with all the detrimental considerations that would factor in over that duration. However, plug even 10,000 years into the equation and the post-flood planet topography (3% planet surface livable), would not be able to sustain the population. You see, now we start to understand the reasoning from folks like Bill Gates and the liberal elite. They are number’s guys and they have run the numbers. They have calculated the difficulty ahead for their posterity and believe themselves to be in a position to do something significant about it. They recognize how quickly the population can double, especially with all our technology, and despite all the efforts over centuries from their predecessors to cull the population growth, through a variety of ways, they see life finding a way.
It is really all about optimum sustainability for those who believe themselves to have evolved beyond the capabilities of the average individual (the elite). They don’t even realize the full intent of their own desire to eliminate the masses. Behind the selfishness of the one-percenters lies the real purpose to scale down human population, it’s all about control. The bible presents it as a great controversy: the battle between right and wrong, the strife between light and darkness, the conflict between truth and error, the warfare between evil and righteousness. And make no mistake about it, you and I will come down on one side or the other.
The enemy of souls has realized over the centuries that he can keep folks distracted from the real issues through a variety of means. As long as are interest and concerns is focused on the many things in life we have to consider, the enemy promotes his play covertly to take our freedoms from us, bringing us under his control. That control moves us incrementally away from the elements of the play of salvation, where God’s faithful are those who keep the commandments of God and possess the faith of Jesus (Rev. 12:17).
We should have a debt of gratitude to offer to those faithful 8 souls that were willing to believe in God’s warning message, cooperate in the building of their rescue ship, endure the magnitude of a horrific once in a lifetime storm, and finally forsake all from the past and start over in a very different shipwrecked world.