Christ existed. It is a fact. If you don't like it, go and cry. BC doesn't mean "before Christ, the savior and son of God, who died for our sins so that we may be worthy of the perfection of God." It just means Before Christ. Why does this have to be such a big deal to people? I don't get it. BC and AD have as much religious meaning nowadays that the Red Cross has.

Your teachers are clearly not that bright.

Every time I use B.C.E/C.E., my teachers mark it wrong.

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Mya is geologic time I belive that starts with the farthest the georecord goes (a good 2 bill years or so) and moves forward from there, at least I think

Ha, well you're right it's geologic time but you've got it backwards. Mya stands for Millions of Years Ago. That means that each year makes the next one year older. In reality it's totally impractical for everyday use, ha.

Mya is geologic time I belive that starts with the farthest the georecord goes (a good 2 bill years or so) and moves forward from there, at least I think

what the crap are you talking about Dr? What's Mya?

As a geologist, I think we should just throw this whole BC/AD or BCE/CE thing out the window, and go for my favorite: Mya. One number. Works great.

All the reports I've written have been BCE/CE, so that's what I've grown accustomed too. I don't personally have any die hard preferences as to which one would be preferable, so BC/AD works for me as well.

Really, I think BCE/CE might as well go through, purely on the fact that it sounds cool. Arbitrary? Yep, and that's the way I like it. It's new, and I'd prefer being able to say BCE and CE, because it sounds like something I'd read out of an Isaac Asimov story. So, might as well get CE.

Or we can stay with BC, AD. Oh well. AD is personally boring in my opinion, but that's just my opinion. Once again, completely arbitrary, but when wasn't an opinion arbitrary?

Really, I'll stick to my BCE/CE until they force me not to use it anymore.

BC does stand for something in latin, I don't remember what... it doesn't stand for before christ tho. And it isn't at jesus's birth. he was born about 4 or 5 years after that date if I remember correctly. Really they are just a random date that ppl decided worked.

Even if everyone does switch to "BCE" and "CE"...the dates will still revolve around Jesus's birth.

Even if we change the words, the meaning behind them is still there...

Thus, it really doesn't matter what names we use for the time periods...and for me BC and AD are easier.

nope and neither do people in say india they (the buddhist population any way) base their calander on the year of buddhas death.

Well, do Polynesian islanders use it?

But why use it when it isn't accurate? I'm sure Polynesian islanders don't care when Jesus was born, and I doubt they would ever measure time based off the alleged date of his birth.

i dont care people are used to the current way and will still use it anyway.

Over here in England the text books still say BC and AD, and it's still the one that you hear in conversation, but the teachers all use BCE and CE. It makes more sense to use BCE and CE really.

Well, the use of BC and AD is a part of history. Jesus is being used as a historical figure in order to calculate what year it is. We have been basing our year around the time of Jesus' existence. Its been used for many, many years. People should just get over it.

It's not being politically correct. It's being historically accurate, although a bit biased towards Western civilization.

Being politicaly correct is far too much effort. Largely because what is politicaly correct always seems to be changing.

Personally, I use BCE and CE. Apparently, it's favored by American archaeologists and historians. *shrugs* It's been around for a while. I used it four years ago during a state social studies fair actually, and it wasn't new then. . . BCE can also stand for "Before the Common Era" or "Before Christian Era" (I think the "christian" one is less common. . .) and CE for "Common Era" or "Christian Era" (again, christian less common. . .) That's what I've always used. "Common Era" that is.

Yeah, AD stands for Anno Domini, which is latin for "in the year of the Lord."

And I don't know about anyone else, but I already thought BCE and CE was old news. We've been using it in school since I was in 10th grade I think. This is all I see now, I rarely ever see BC and AD used anymore.