Twisting in the wind

Posted on | April 27, 2010 | Comments Off

Every once in a while I see an answer to a question that has me scratching my head in amazement. The question was an excellent one: How did people keep track of  the year in Ancient times?  Here’s the answer someone gave:

Actually, they often didn’t. BC stands for Before Christ (AD stands for Anno Dimenio, after death) so BC means the time before Jesus supposedly was born. In ancient times they didn’t know how many years it would be until Jesus came or even that he would exist. They didn’t keep track of time at all. Today scientists are able to do things like take dirt samples from the ground (the deeper it gets, the farther into the past it gets) and see about what year it was by our system. In textbooks and other things they’re only making a rough estimate.

Yes, the entire world sat around the fire waiting for Jesus to arrive so they could finally start counting years using AD.  Can’t you just envision the conversations? “Hey Bob, son of Job, what’s the date?” “Dunno Ham, Jesus hasn’t arrived so I have no clue. Wish he’d get here so we could figure out when to plant the crops.”

Ohhhh… I have such a headache now.

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