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While we are all busy discussing science and religion, may I offer a
request for all those of you who use dates in the historical era on your
center signage to use the CE, BCE (Common Era, Before the Common Era)
nomenclature instead of AD and BC.  Both of the latter refer explicity
to Christ, and AD refers explicitly to Christ's divinity, making CE/BCE
a more inclusive usage.  The years are counted identically, this is 2005
CE, so there's no issue of conversion, just a change in initials.  For
more see the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era.


David L Smith
Director of Professional Development 
Da Vinci DiscoveryCenter of Science and Technology
http://www.discovery-center.org

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