How many humans have died since the beiginning of time (or recorded history) ?

I have wondered how many people have died unnaturally, not just how many people have died. If you figure all wars, famines, disputes, diseases, poverty, malnutrition, accidents, and other causes, probably half of the 106 billion people who have died in the history of the world died before their time. Knowing this, if all of those people would have lived until their natural death, we would currently have a population around 20 billion, instead of just under 7 billion.

you're an idiot.

Where do they fit 106 billion skeletons and ashes, I bet soon we will be sending corpse rockets into space.

Heaven recycles with Karma
some of those souls need LOTS of distilling :-D

APPROX 106 BILLION PLUS A FEW MILLION HAVE DIED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SAVED THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF CHRIST WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY,READ THE BIBLE, I DID NOT WRITE IT, WILL GO TO HEAVEN.BILLIONS WILL BE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, SAD, BECAUSE THOSE WHO HEAR THE GOSPEL AND ECCEPT CHRIST GO TO HEAVEN AND IT IS NOT A RELIGION, IT IS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING CHRIST, YOU CHOOSE!TO MY ESTIMATION AND STUDY 300 TO 350 MILLION WILL BE IN HEAVEN. GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE, YET HE GAVE US A ROAD MAP. HE SAYS NARROW IS THE WAY AND FEW WILL ENTER, AND BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION, YOUR CHOICE, ROBERT

which is it, TIME for recorded history? There have been humans on this planet since the dinosaurs.

excuse me? Their essense if their MIND and mind is not anywhere in matter. It matters not how the body is destroyed or decays, at all.

According to Christians they are all in hell.

what do you mean by this? All souls live unless uncreated and no bodies ever go to heaven, these type here to not work well there. These ones fused with their thought adjusters, which causes the body to be consumed.

well that is one of the serious errors of religion, including Islam. there is no hell, only nasty planets to live on until you earn the heaven planets.

if we got to 20 billion the world would have long booted us off, and tried that in fact after WW2 but the folks from heaven came and stabilized the planet.


Hey Christians, did you know you have let over 20 million "non combatants" in Iraq and Afghanistan die from acts of genocide against those peoples by your government and military serving them?






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if population growth continues like now, I guess in 200 years this would be true

not really

actually they are all in your room, just invisible

YOU ARE ALL GOING TI DIE

300 people died i know

well since the first humans that migrated here during the time of the dinosaurs...... I don't think its countable.

I was looking for the number of people who were killed by people. To see how it compared with the total.

other way around...

All of them!

All of them!

at least 12

...and 3 years later oh cool why , who won ooh cool.

Wrong. Hell does not get hotter and hotter. It gets colder. The increase in the number of souls can do one of two things. It can: 1. As you said stay the same size and increase in pressure or 2. Increase in size (volume) to account for the increase in souls.

Having said that, we must admit that Satan is a god. Being so, he is all-knowing. And therefore not an idiot. So he would most likely create a space (Hell) that could allow for more souls to be fit as needed. So, as volume increases, the temperature actually decreases. In fact, by the time that you or I die and are placed into either Heaven or Hell, we will be going to a very cold place. Very cold. One way or another.

On a side note, I'm probably going to Hell because I don't believe in a God. Or Satan. Or anything. Just (hence the name) SCIENCE!

Where are all the graves? If there were that many people dead then there would be bones all over the place wouldn't there?

Where are the graves?

Lots of graves from the 1500s or so, how about before that?

While the Population Today article is interesting, it's impossible to say with any certainty.

It's entirely based upon the age of the Earth, and when the first people lived. If you're a scientist, then you believe in hominids of various kinds including Neanderthals. There's Cro-Magnon, all the side branches including Homo floresiensis, modern Homo sapiens too. It's entirely possible we have other side branches that have never been discovered, as well a possibility that some side branches are happening now.

If you narrowed it down to Homo sapiens, then still, the article is incorrect since it begins in 8000 BCE probably with Sumer, but there's also Gobekli Tepe which predates that, so that blows that out of the water.

Beginning of time is an interesting statement. How do measure that? If you mean, the first day, then the first time the Sun shone and the Earth began an orbit around the Sun, then we're talking back billions of year ago.

Recorded history which you have in parentheses would be probably Sumer not Gobekli Tepe ...maybe.

The question is too imprecise to logically answer. There's no way to know the populations, not in any scientific way.

If you reject Science and choose the Bible then still, there's no way to know. None.

While some people were mentioned, then Abram met Melchizedek, that means the presence of other tribes. We know the children of Adam and Eve later married, and yet this implies other created beings, by logic. The Bible doesn't include a lot of details on this. While some fundamentalist might try to use it as a science book, it's not one.

The question reminds me vaguely of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
See Thomas Aquinas

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/18/2013 04:07 AM

And then, there are those that never died..

Not enough to satisfy the Creator's lust for suffering.

Dude, not every bone lasts forever. Most of the bones of people and animals have been broken down back into earth and dust. A few are probably fossilizing as we speak, but of course not every skeleton is still hanging around...

I would vote all but the current 7 billion?

you could have just stated you didn't know