{"id":3433,"date":"2024-01-13T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2024-01-13T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:49:20","slug":"noah-and-population-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/13\/noah-and-population-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah and Population Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3431\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Noah-and-Pop-Growth-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Noah-and-Pop-Growth-Fig2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Noah-and-Pop-Growth-Fig2-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>My cousin sent me this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/In-the-Book-of-Genesis-only-8-humans-Noah-and-his-sons-and-their-four-wives-survived-the-Flood-How-many-people-could-a-family-of-8-procreate-in-say-500-years\">query<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/01\/quora-tragedy-answer-websites\/677062\/\">dubious<\/a> Quora:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Book of Genesis, only 8 humans, Noah and his sons and their four wives, survived the Flood. How many people could a family of 8 procreate in, say, 500 years?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Noah-and-Population-Growth-231217.pdf\">Noah and Population Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin sent me this query from the dubious Quora: \u201cIn the Book of Genesis, only 8 humans, Noah and his sons and their four wives, survived the Flood. How many people could a family of 8 procreate in, say, 500 years?\u201d See Noah and Population Growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-questions","tag-exponential-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}