Atheists if you don't believe in Jesus then how can you say
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Time was not accurately measured until the atomic clock was developed. Thus, all time MUST use the proper Cesium reference. Zero Year occurred fifty-something solar years ago. References to past times take the form of Ma or Mya.
... well, see, BC and AD are human created ways in which we keep track of time. Also, Jesus, even if he existed, would have nothing to do with the flow of time. There is no evidence for him rising from the dead and flying away into the clouds apart from 4 differing accounts. Hehe, I'm listening to Tool right now- the song Eulogy. Very fitting cause the lyrics are -"come down, get off that fucking cross, and leave that fucking space to nail the next fool martyr..."
Scientists don't use BC and AD. They use the term "before present" (BP). Where greater accuracy is needed, "present" was frozen on 1-1-1950. Anyway, the BC/AD split was based on a 6th century estimate of Jesus' birth by Dionysius Exiduus. According to Matthew, Jesus was actually born no later than 4 BC (the year of Herod's death).
"According to Matthew, Jesus was actually born no later than 4 BC (the year of Herod's death)."
...yet according to Luke, Jesus was born no *earlier* than 6 AD (the year Quirinius became governor of Iudea).
Talk about being born again.
"Atheists if you don't believe in Jesus then how can you say
I use C.E. and B.C.E. personally. Just to piss you religious nuts off, of course.
Discordian calendar > gregorian calendar, anyday.
People with linuxes (linuces?) should type ddate into the terminal and see why. People without linuces can just imagine it then read the next line:
Today is Setting Orange, the 67th day of Discord in the YOLD 3174
We use other nomenclature.
Why don't we count time since the founding of Rome? That's how the Romans did it. We are now in 2761 after the founding!
Hail Caesar!
Or we could just use C.E. and B.C.E.
That´s easy,
Sounds like Stormy nights is a good example of the reason why homeschooling by fundamentalist parents is a bad thing. Obviously they implant untrue things into their children in which they themselves believe, like in this example the myth that there was no system of time measurement before christianity emerged :D
First time I actually slapped my forehead.
What if BC could be Before Caesar, and AD After Daggering ( Christians are obsessed with crosses so why not)?
Or we could just use the Unix Epoch.
Unix terminal --> date +%s
1211309432 seconds since January 1, 1970
But for historical dates, BCE/CE works OK.
Years, you idiot, are not defined by Jewish zombies, but rather by the amount of time it takes our planet to revolve around the sun once.
I prefer counting from the end of the last ice age: it's a fine geological landmark, and agriculture took off soon thereafter.
The beautiful thing is that there would only be a disruption in ancient dates: all dates for the past 2008 years would just have a "1" tacked on the beginning.
PNO
According to modern science it seems the earth was formed approximately 4540000000 years ago.
I'm happy to agree that it was in fact formed 4540002008 years ago if it means I'll never hear this sort of religious clap-trap again.
Unfortunately, that ain't goin' to happen.
LOL! That's hilarious.
Well, you can always use Before Common Era, and After Common Era.
Which darn near every university I've been to or attended uses.
Especially priceless? Jesus was born quite possibly 4 years before where the break off point is between BC and AD.
yeah!,you athiest geniuses,and did you know that without the harvest moon,farmers wouldnt know when to bring in their crops????and furthermore,there was no such thing as salad before Julias Caesar,so there!!ha!i do believe i just got you sumnabitches!!!!hoo boy!!!woohoo!!lordy,lordy,i am a friggin brainiac!!!yes i am!!!!praise jesus,and pass the salt!!!!self high five!!!!!(ok,i will grant you that i may have went too far here.......sorry)
0 A.D. just refers to an arbitrary point in time which has been chosen according to one spiritual tradition. We could just as well use the Mayan calendar or, closer to our culture, the Jewish calendar (where we're now in the year 5768).
In other words, you're hopelessly stupid if you think this is an argument for young earth creationism.
We can use the Common Era, stupid.
If you look at historical evidence, Jesus can't have been born on year zero anyway, even if he did exist. Firstly because there is no year zero, secondly because there was no star in the sky that year and there was no census scheduled in Bethlehem that year.
Radiometric dating.
Next idiot.
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