Derf wrote:
But as Christians, we have an inside track with the designer of the earth. If He intended for it to handle 11 billion people, don't you think He would have designed it to handle 11 billion people? Or if not, perhaps He would have designed it not to reach 11 billion people.
No, the conclusions made here do not stand. The place has been seriously disrupted since the revolt of mankind, and the deluge (physically and geologically more by the deluge than the other). It groans until the coming new heavens and new earth, Romans 8:
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time...
To believe that that whole place is in a state of disruption and disarray is one of the basic Christian beliefs addressed in Dr. Schaeffer's HE IS THERE AND HE IS NOT SILENT. By contrast, the atheist and uniformitarian belief is that it is arriving at something of evolutionary perfection, especially if we can just put massive global centralized government in charge, like the Third Reich intended. The US Constitution would be beheaded, and all actions or values would be assessed in terms of the 'environment.' Thus the supposed 'crisis' of climate change, which is as elusive in definition as possible, and has been rewritten 3 times so far.