Question for NathanH83

[Frank J Ciaramella]

Hi Nathan, I have watched your videos on youtube, "Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood?", and "How Long Were the Isrealites in Egypt?", and enjoyed, and learned from them very much. My question involves what was not covered in the videos, but begs the question from the information that was gathered from the videos, and that is: How is it possible that the census figures in Numbers 1&2 could ever have been achievable from 75 people in only 215 years in Egypt plus 2 years after the Exodus? I have used the 3.2 % growth rate, from the videos, and found that there would have only been 70,000 people, men, women and children using that rate. I have used a 5.0 % growth rate, which is probably unrealistic, and gotten 2,900.000 which would be close to the census, including women and children; aside from the fact that we don't know how many male babies Pharaoh might have killed. Have you investigated this? If so, I would like to know what you have concluded; if not, it would be something you should probably look into. Thank you so much. Frank.

 

[NathanH83]

Hi Nathan, I have watched your videos on youtube, "Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood?", and "How Long Were the Isrealites in Egypt?", and enjoyed, and learned from them very much. My question involves what was not covered in the videos, but begs the question from the information that was gathered from the videos, and that is: How is it possible that the census figures in Numbers 1&2 could ever have been achievable from 75 people in only 215 years in Egypt plus 2 years after the Exodus? I have used the 3.2 % growth rate, from the videos, and found that there would have only been 70,000 people, men, women and children using that rate. I have used a 5.0 % growth rate, which is probably unrealistic, and gotten 2,900.000 which would be close to the census, including women and children; aside from the fact that we don't know how many male babies Pharaoh might have killed. Have you investigated this? If so, I would like to know what you have concluded; if not, it would be something you should probably look into. Thank you so much. Frank.

Yea, to go from 75 males to 600,000 males in 215 years would require a growth rate of about 4.3%.

 

[NathanH83]

Hi Nathan, I have watched your videos on youtube, "Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood?", and "How Long Were the Isrealites in Egypt?", and enjoyed, and learned from them very much. My question involves what was not covered in the videos, but begs the question from the information that was gathered from the videos, and that is: How is it possible that the census figures in Numbers 1&2 could ever have been achievable from 75 people in only 215 years in Egypt plus 2 years after the Exodus? I have used the 3.2 % growth rate, from the videos, and found that there would have only been 70,000 people, men, women and children using that rate. I have used a 5.0 % growth rate, which is probably unrealistic, and gotten 2,900.000 which would be close to the census, including women and children; aside from the fact that we don't know how many male babies Pharaoh might have killed. Have you investigated this? If so, I would like to know what you have concluded; if not, it would be something you should probably look into. Thank you so much. Frank.

Does that answer your question?