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Yes, so the point is at best, there's no reason to privilege any particular one of these guesses, whether 4 or 5 or 1 or whatever. We just don't know, ergo the
by galdosdi 11y ago
Yes, so the point is at best, there's no reason to privilege any particular one of these guesses, whether 4 or 5 or 1 or whatever. We just don't know, ergo the AD/BC date system does _not_ center about a date that has much meaning for anyone, which was the O/P's point
- emodendroket 11y agoWell... except it was explicitly chosen because it was a guess at the birth of Jesus. That has meaning even if the guess may be off.