Re: My local Missouri morons are at it again.

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A legal standard for dating is needed. Using AD or BC does not
interfere
with an university using BP in the geology department or any other
dating
system for scientific use.
Umm, what part of "Neither the state, nor any political subdivision,
shall
use any
other designation", do you not understand?

George


Yes I do ! It is obvious that you do not!!

JL
Obviously, you don't understand. Our state universities are part of the
State government. Which means, according to the wording of that law,
they would be required to use AD and BC in all of their publications.
This is clearly a case of trying to force science (and society at large)
to revert back to "the good ole days". It is yet another attempt by
bigoted Christians to usurp secular society by forcing their beliefs on
believers and non-believers alike. It's absurd (and probably a
violation of our constitutional rights), and shouldn't be allowed.

OK, I agree - it's absurd. It's about as absurd as the move to stop
using BC/AD was in the first place, considering that the terms were very
recognizable to everybody. I mean, really, what's the big deal? Were
unsuspecting non-Christians going to be subversively converted to
Christianity because of BC/AD? Did it hurt people's feelings? Give me a
break. I'm an atheist myself, yet somehow I still slept at night, even
while knowing that religious references were defining our calendar
terminology. OH, the HORROR!

I have no objection if people (even the state of Missouri)want to use a
calendar based on the appearance of the Crab Nebula, or the birthday of
someone's poodle. I don't object to the use of AD/BC or CE/BCE on
correspondence or laws -- that's all the same to me. I don't think we've
got a problem of people knowing when it is. He is fixing a non-existent
problem IMO.

It is the second sentence which bothers me: "Neither the state, nor any
political subdivision, shall use any other designation."
That's an open invitation to the young earthers to sue, based on the law,
against state and state academic publications which use other time scales,
such as geologic and archaeological time scales, which would clearly be
forbidden unless converted to the AD/BC system.

I agree with you Are they going to require that texbooks be changed for
this? Are they going to go back and change all course documentation to use
BC/AD? What a ridiculous waste of time and money.


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