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 Being a business professor and space business lecturer in france and the
 us, i agree that the use of BC and AD is more uniform and we use it even
 in business. even in history it is still used but now i noticed that for
 new teachers taking teacher exams, they are using the bce and ce in orde
r to secularise time. in france we still use AD and BC.  it is interestin
g also how non-western people are flabbergasted by the willingness of wes
terners to change their culture, or ideals to accommodate the non-western
ers. it is just something to think about. Edith
	


> De: "Glenn A. W
alsh" <[log in to unmask]>
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 Objet: Re: ISEN:Science, religion, BC, and AD
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 
09:57:22 -0700

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> Although somewhat commo
n, personally, I find the terms
> C.E. and B.C.E. too generic. C.E. stan
ds for "Current
> Era." What if, a century or two from now, there is
> 
another calendar reform? Then, suddenly, these dates
> are no longer "Cu
rrent Era." All of the dates with the
> C.E. or B.C.E. notations would h
ave to be changed.
> 
> Although B.C. and A.D. do refer to one specific

> religion, it is the common calendar of business and
> civic affairs 
used by nearly everyone on the planet.
> And, B.C. and A.D. refer to a *
specific* dating
> system, no matter what dating systems are used in the

> future, so there is no confusion.
> 
> gaw
> 
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