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$\"\"$ I\u2019m grateful to Michael Heiser for highlighting the ridiculousness of a typical creationist claim<\/a>. According to the Bible, the command to \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d was there prior to the Fall.<\/p>\n

According to young-earth creationists, death was not.<\/p>\n

And so that means that the vision of \u201cparadise\u201d that young-earth creationists have is of a world that quickly becomes filled with humans and presumably other living things packed tightly as sardines.<\/p>\n

If you get the impression that young-earth creationists make bold assertions and sweeping claims about the Bible, history, and science, clearly without having thought them through<\/a>, you\u2019d be right. Consider how crowded some parts of the world are in our real present day existence of which death is a part. Then do the calculation to figure out how much worse the world would get, and how quickly, in the absence of mortality.<\/p>\n

All aboard the young-earth creationists\u2019 Eden Express!<\/p>\n

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