Reply To: Beni Yishma'el

Frummy,

The gap could have occurred in any of the 14 generations, i just used gen one as an example. Lets take this a step further, what if gen 1 was actually 100,000,000 (50,000,000 couples), it would now take 27 generations (or 540+ years) for everyone to multiply evenly (averaging), in order for the descendants of person A to catch up with the rest. A whole lot can happen in 540 years to widen the gap, which would delay the catching up process for hundreds of additional years. This is especially true if they isolated and avoided intermarriage. For example, the Jewish population Pre-WWII was only 16 million, less than 1% of the words 2.2 billion population. If you want to consider the various massive massacres throughout our history, it would also have to apply to the Yishmaelim, i’m sure they had their share.

Anyways, i’ll settle for 50%.

Thanks Frummy, nice talking to you!