Imagine if Adam were still alive on earth today and everyone else who has ever been born, now the earth enormous but not infinite. Do you really think God intended for man to live forever on earth?
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Why not? It's likely we would eventually be exploring and colonizing other worlds. If not, it's quite possible that we would simply stop having children at some point. Either way, there are many ways to prevent overpopulation.
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If man hadn't "fallen from grace", I don't see any reason that'd he'd be confined to earth. We'd probably have explored and populated other planets, or maybe just built "up" like on the Jetsons...;)
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The calculation's a little old now - it was done back around 1980 - but then (I'm not sure how) statisticians and population experts figured that more people were alive in 1980 than the total number of all those who had died. (Which raised interesting problems for those believing in re-incarnation, unless you figured the spirits of extinct dodos were coming back as humans ... which would explain a lot, after all.) Be that as it may, given that in the Edenic state (granting for the sake of argument that it existed) the world was spontaneously producing enough fruits, nuts, milk, honey, etc. to satisfy everyone's nutritional needs, and there was no need for clothing, shelter, medicine, or protection from wild beasts, disease, the elements, or each other, I really don't think over-population would have been a problem. Also, God commanded man to be fruitful and multiply and spread out over the Earth. He didn't say what to do once that had been achieved. Who knows -- at that point maybe He'd have said it was time to stop making babies and it was now okay to fool around with members of your own sex.
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