Can God hear everybody?

The windchime thing on the other forum got me thinking: 8O

According to the Census Bureau, there are about 6.5 billion people in the world:
( http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html ) By my limited math, there are only about 31 million seconds in a year. So, if God heard a 1-second individual prayer sequentially from each person, it would take over 200 years for him to hear each prayer in turn. Obviously, most people would die without their prayer ever being heard. God could be benevolent, but just really busy.

Now I'm thinking more prayers could be heard, if we'd all cooperate to speed things up a bit and weed out some of the extraneous communications. Do we really need to say grace and all that "hallowed be thy name" stuff? How about 'Amen'? That's a lot of bandwidth, too. Funerals could be shortened to 'Lord, coming up!' We could also not pray during peak call times like wars, commuter rush hours, and holiday travel time. Also, does every prayer need to go to the big man or can some of these prayers be handled by saints? 8O Is there some system for prioritizing the prayers? Can we adopt one? Emergency prayers could all go something like, "God, 911, help stop that big rig!" 8O

Ever notice that in polytheistic societies, the Gods were much more active and in monotheism they don't seem to be as active. Could it be that one God is just a lot busier handling the same to do list that was formerly handled by many Gods? Can we help by including a book like "Time Management for a Busy God" on the next space probe destined to leave our solar system? 8O

Wow, I've given myself a headache now...

Wait...we may well be saved. 8) I figured that God must be more powerful than an IBM zSeries mainframe. If one mainframe can handle more than 640 millions of instructions per second, God must be able to handle hearing everybody. Carry on! 8)

Lee Spain said:

According to the Census Bureau, there are about 6.5 billion people in the world:
( http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html ) By my limited math, there are only about 31 million seconds in a year. So, if God heard a 1-second individual prayer sequentially from each person, it would take over 200 years for him to hear each prayer in turn.

This is nothing compared to the problem Santa has getting to all those kids between midnight and 5am, in addition to having to load up all that weight on the sleigh and then move all that mass that fast.

But he does doesn't he 8)