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If the population of the world was reduced to only eight people by the Flood, how could
there be enough people for Ham's grandson Nimrod to organize cities and civilizations as de-
scribed in the comparatively short time indicated? In Egyptian traditions Nimrod is known as
Osiris, and after he became king over the land he devoted himself, according to the traditions, to
improving the condition of his people by formulating a code of laws for them and having them
worship the gods and perform services to them. He then left Egypt and traveled over the rest of the
world teaching the various nations to do what his own subjects were doing:

Osiris [Nimrod] raised a large army, and he determined to go about the world teaching mankind to plant
vines and to sow wheat and barley. Having made all arrangements in Egypt, he committed the government
of his whole kingdom to Isis...He marched through Ethiopia...having taught the Ethiopians the arts of till-
age and husbandry, he built several cities in their country, and appointed governors over them, and then
continued his journey...He then travelled by way of the coast of Arabia into India, where he built many cit-
ies, including Nysa...journeying westwards he brought his army through the Hellespont into Europe. In
Thrace he killed Lycurgus, a barbarian king, who refused to adopt his system of government (Osiris and
the Egyptian Resurrection, by E.A. Wallis Budge. 1973: Dover Publications, New York. Pp. 10-11).

In Ronald Wlodyga's Supernatural Phenomena we read:

According to Bryant, Vol. II, p. 377, Nimrod conquered ALL OF THE NATIONS from Babylon to Lybia,
which included Egypt as well. This area included the majority of the populated world. Nimrod's religion
and government was placed on these peoples, thus making Nimrod the first person to impose any form of
army, economic, political, social and civil system other than God's system of government (1981: Triumph
Publishing, Altadena, CA. Pp. 45-46).

If the Flood reduced the world population to only eight people, how -- in the comparatively
brief time indicated -- could there possibly be enough population for Ham's grandson Nimrod to
organize cities and civilizations all over the world as just described? Writes Ralph Woodrow --

A period of a few more generations after the flood brings us to the time of Abraham. The Biblical account
of his travels reveals the existence of developed civilizations and cities on a VAST scale. Leaving the civi-
lization around Ur, Abraham found Canaan populated with Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Per-
izzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites (Genesis 15: 19-21). TWENTY-SIX
CITIES in Canaan alone are mentioned in Genesis at this time. In Egypt he found what was already, by this
time, an ancient civilization under the control of a Pharaoh (Genesis 12:15). Near Damascus he rescued
Lot and others who had been captured by certain kings (Genesis 14: 1-16) (Noah's Flood, Joshua's Long
Day, and Lucifer's Fall. 1984: Ralph Woodrow Evangelical Assn., Riverside, CA. P.56).

Now, how many years after the Flood was this? This is carefully spelled out by the Bible
itself, in Genesis 11: "Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad 2 YEARS after the
flood....Arphaxad lived 35 YEARS, and begot Salah...Salah lived 30 YEARS, and begot
Eber...Eber lived 34 YEARS, and begot Peleg...Peleg lived 30 YEARS, and begot Reu...Reu lived
32 YEARS, and begot Serug...Serug lived 30 YEARS, and begot Nahor...Nahor lived 29 YEARS,
and begot Terah...Now Terah lived 70 YEARS, and begot Abram..." If you add all these numbers
together -- 2, 35, 30, 34, 30, 32, 30, 29 and 70 -- you get a total of 292 years from the flood to the
birth of Abraham. Thus, the period from the Flood until the time of Abraham was within three cen-
turies. IF the Flood had eliminated the entire population of the world except for Noah and his fam-
ily, it is impossible that this would have allowed sufficient time for these civilizations to have
developed on the scale described at the time of Nimrod -- let alone at the time of Abraham!
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