246,926,195,409,564 people can’t be wrong

I’ve not had much to say about Stephen Hawking’s proclaiming that God isn’t necessary for the universe to be created, mostly because I find it unusually remedial for him.  It just seems a perpetuation of the false construct of an either-or battle between science and religion.

(I have the utmost respect for scientific endeavor, and I also love Jesus.  Go figure.)

However, I did note that CNN.com reports unprecedented popularity for the article.  As I type, it appears that just under 247 trillion people have shared it:

That’s about 36,000 times the population of Earth, and about 412,000 times the number of people with a Facebook account.

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