...we all WILL be able to gather at one time in front of God's throne on Judgement Day? Oh yeah, we have to consider those who existed prior...got anything on estimated total human population of the earth for maybe the last 10,000 years or so?
Acknowledgements: Copyright "The Guardian" [UK newspaper], first published by Fourth Estate Limited 1996 [so statistics might be out of date].
Quote:
Question: A recent television advert suggests that is is possible to fit the entire world's population on to the Isle of Wight [a small island in the English Channel to the south of Great Britain]. How true is this statement?
Answer: The Isle of Wight has an area of 381 square kilometres. It is possible to squeeze about 10 average British adults into one square metre, and thus 3.81 billion of them on to the island.
The world's population, at present, is in the order of 5.56 billion. If (a) the average person requires only 90 per cent of the space required by the average Briton; (b) 12 per cent of the population, being aged four or less, require no space at all; and (c) a further 20 per cent, aged between 5 and 14, require only half the amount of space occupied by adults, the potential capacity of the Isle of Wight increases to 5.34 billion. Hence, the original question can only be accurately answered after detailed analysis of the demographic and anthropometric make-up of the world's population.
Unquote (Accredited to Geoffrey Taunton, Portsmouth, UK.)
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