"To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion," McConnell said. CNN checked McConnell's numbers with noted Temple University math professor and author John Allen Paulos. "A million dollars a day for 2,000 years is only three-quarters of a trillion dollars. It's a big number no matter how you slice it," Paulos said.
Conclusion: At least one CNN reporter either doesn't know how long ago
Jesus was born or cannot do basic arithmetic, so they found a
mathematician who knows something about Jesus (John Allen Paulos is
author of the book Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
The sad fact is that I don't even find things like this surprising anymore...
ReplyDeleteJournalists are typically taught that, no matter how obvious they think a fact is, they cannot publish their own opinion--instead, they must find someone else to say the same thing and quote them. This is probably what has occurred here.
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