Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Just Now Catching On?
The Washington Times carries an article about the move among scholars to change the traditional calendar designations "B.C." (Before Christ) and "A.D." (anno Domini, latin for 'the year of our Lord') to B.C.E. (before common era) and C.E. (common era). This is pretty old news.
More, it is just silly. They are still using the appearance of Christ as the great divider in time, they just want to call it something different. One cannot help but think "A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." But what really cracks me up is that from a purely scientifc viewpoint, it would be much easier to have a straightline time instead of any sort of "positive" and "negative" time line. But where to put the beginning?
More, it is just silly. They are still using the appearance of Christ as the great divider in time, they just want to call it something different. One cannot help but think "A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." But what really cracks me up is that from a purely scientifc viewpoint, it would be much easier to have a straightline time instead of any sort of "positive" and "negative" time line. But where to put the beginning?
