It’s equally possible that there was more than one or even a day where only people were born and no one died.

There was a low point where only about 2,000 humans were estimated to be alive. Certainly you couldn’t have had someone dying everyday then

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    Think of it like language, was there ever Latin speaking parents that gave birth to a French speaking child? No, it’s a gradual change. Or take a color gradient from blue to red there’s a definite change taking place but picking out one specific spot in the middle might be purple

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      I see what you’re saying and I’m sure science wise it’s technically correct.

      Even with your language example… yes a a certain point you have do say “okay that’s French”

      Much like the color too. Yes the middle is purple but that doesn’t change the fact that at some point in the gradient it becomes blue.

      There the old saying “at what point do grains of rice become a pile of rice”

      It’s impossible to say sure, but theirs is a point in my opinion.We draw distinctions for things all the time for other things too.

      We have a line where you’re too drunk to drive. A whole movie about people turning a hill into mountain.

      100.4 degrees is a fever according to my last hospital visit.

      It’s not strange for us to look for “here’s the line”