What exactly is the AD?

[Enkidu Warrior]

Originally posted by EddyG17
if it is about political correctness would they have to change the starting point other that the birth of christ because of it being religous? If so, then when could be a good date to start? Yumbo?

15 billion years ago would clearly be a good starting point.

Or just call it 2004 AFE (after ficticious event).

As an atheist and a scientist, let me say that I think ignoring the impact of religion on our heritage and culture is pointless and silly.

 

[Outlaw_Rudy]

Capt Buttkick: I'm not sure what you mean by MA? Do you mean middle ages? If so, European scholors hardly were the guiding lite of the time. Anyone who denied anything in the bible was usually jailed or killed. Real scientific progress was in... well, pretty much everywhere else( particularly in the Muslim world).

Anyway, I personally think incorporating any religous ideas into scientific research devalues your work( simply because religion has absolutely nothing to do with science, other than possibly hindering progress and killing scientists).

Also, Eddy, what year do you think Jesus was born? A.D. doesn't mark when Yahweh was born.

 

[EddyG17]

if I am not mistaken, jesus was born in 1 BC, after a week or so we were in 1 AD. As to a especific date we'll never know.
I believe that is the source of the controversy to when did the millenium ended. Some say 2000, because 2000 years after 0 but in reality I think that when the cristian church invented the calendar there was no cero, meanig that the millenium really ended in 2001, 2000 years after 1.

 

[Capt Buttkick]

Rudy: Middle ages, yes.
European scholars were, quite correctly, not the epitome of enlightement of that era. However, abbeys, convents and churches were preserving the heritage of the ancient age which, when we got to the renaissance, was the foundation of the prosperity of the european nations for centuries thereafter.

I think the birth of Christ is put somewhere between year 4 BC and year 4 AD, depending on what history department you belong to

 

[EddyG17]

yeah, i think that ingnoring the impact of religoin in our history is just silly, but just for the heck of of it i think the the renaissance could be a good strat point as would be the day the UN was founded.