As you can see in the chart above, the human population recently passed 6 billion. Population always follows a sharp curve like this because it is exponential rather than a straight line, fixed rate of increase.
If life began 3.5 billion years ago, the world would have been overpopulated millions of years ago!
The current world population at the present rate would take only a few thousand years to attain! In fact, the current population is consistent starting with 8 people (Noah and his family) about 4,500 years ago at the time of the Genesis Flood.
Even conservative rates cannot stretch the origin of life to billions of years ago.
This picture from space shows lights at night around the world and illustrates how crowded the planet is getting:
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