““Recall that Noah was only in the tenth generation, so this may be well beyond the higher end of the population maximum. The late Henry Morris had conservative estimates as low as 235 million people. He also calculated rates based on modern population growth, giving about 3 billion people.4 John Morris reports estimates that there were about 350 million people pre-Flood.5 Based on these estimates, pre-Flood populations may have ranged from the low hundreds of millions to 17 billion people. Considering that the world was violent (Genesis 6:11–136) and wicked (Genesis 6:57) to such a horrible extreme before the Flood for 120 years (Genesis 6:48), how many people were left at the onset of the Flood?””
