Does Santa exist?

[stevie_c2it]

For and against answers please. To kick off here is the case for against.

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, assuming Santa only visits Christian homes, this reduces the workload for
Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau).
At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.

Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the
remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the
next house.

Can it be done?

[woofgang]

BELIEVE!

[Cetti]

Oh woofgang, I didn't know that site was still going......wonderful!!

[acc17]

Look, do you have to ruin everything?

The whole point in santa is that he is magic, and no amount of mathematics will prove otherwise.

I can almost certainly say that you, Stevie, won't be getting a visit from him this year.

[Otrere]

Why should he only visit Christian homes?

[Sausagegirl]

Yes he does, and anyone who says othwerwise will get duffed up by the Easter Bunny.

[Compintone]

For Christmas my kids bought me a front page of a newspaper saying that Japanese scientists had discovered, through DNA testing, that I was Santa�s nearest living relative. The paper even had a picture of me. Santa must therefore really exist as we all know newspapers always tell the truth.

[duckie14]

santa does for small children since i am 14 i got told a while ago he is not real but i think it is wrong that some people tell small children that santa does not exsist i still think there is some magic!!