Can someone help me understand this paragraph about young earth creationism?

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"Using mathematical calculations, man cannot be more than 6,000 years old. Assuming that every family had three children (a low number compared to previous centuries) and after accounting for natural death catastrophes and wars, we find that the world's population would approximate what it actually is now. If human history goes back a million years, then the world's population would have needed several times the land space we have now."

- Orthodox priest.

Thx in advanced!!
"Fake science. Don't believe a word of it."

I would've expected a more reasonable answer from a level like that!!
 
Pure unadulterated pseudoscience. Pick a number of years, I can tell you how many children per family are needed. Population growth has not been steady. Thomas Malthus noted how population growth was limited by food supply, just before the boom in agricultural output of the 19th century. It also ignores the severe population botlleneck produced by the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago..

This is just a classic example of how flagrantly dishonest Young Earth Creationists are.
 
Mathematical error.

It would be true if all children only married each other. However, when they marry children of other parents, they make loops. Therefore the total number of children is less.
 
It doesn't make sense because for he did not calculate the living conditions and he has no understanding of population genetics and population and ecosystem ecology.
 
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