Oh Lord, not this old wives' tale again. "More springing up each day?" We've been holding steady at 33,000 to 36,000, after dropping from a high of over a million denominations in the first quarter of this year!
You seem rather obsessed with chasing this statistic across the website, and you continually cite as a mere polemical ploy the obvious hyperbole of “over a million denominations,” and combine it with the approximations inherent in ranges like the 33,000 to 36,000 you referto now. Look, I doubt seriously that anyone can come up with an *exact* number of denominations, but the figure usually touted around here of 33,000 is taken from a work written by Protestants, the World Christian Encyclopedia. Here are two sites (there are dozens available in a simple Google search) that cite the same figures and source, the first is Catholic, the second is non-Catholic: http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/a120.htm
http://www.uniquebiblestudy.com/topic41.htm
Whether the criteria for defining a denomination meet your standards or not, some people, at least, can honestly come to the conclusion that the splitting of Christian bodies can tally to these kinds of numbers. I’m not so sure that I myself would agree that the nuances of differences between some bodies constitute actual “speciation” in denominations. But, clearly, there are hundreds and hundreds, at least, of definitively separated groups. That is more to the point, rather than quibbling about whether the tally - only an estimate anyway - goes up or down weekly like the Dow Jones averages