does all the world use BC as the same time period as we describe it ?
for example lets say theres a book out in pakistan about dinosaurs and they put the time period for a certain species would they put 250000 BM before mohammad instead of BC ?
I mean how is the time period organized through out the rest of the world when different religions believe in different gods.
Nope. A lot of academic books made in recent years use "BCE" (Before Common Era) instead.
Most of the world like it or not is fixed to the Gregorian Calendar which begins 2010 years ago.
There are other calendars though, there's a Jewish Calendar, a Japanese Calendar, and a Hindu Calendar to name a few but for the most part world governments and academia follow the Gregorian standard.
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I don't know, I can't say I've met many scientists who would care. Most don't see anymore religious connotation to "BC" or "AD" than they do to other things... which totally escape me now... there are like, religious origins to the names of days and months? ya? you get what I'm saying...
I'd say it's the same people who get pissed about "In God we Trust" on the money.
I've been taking history classes that use the Common Era nomenclature for a while now. It's silly, sure, but historians and paleontologists seem to have settled on it.
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I just enjoy the people who think they represent "Before Christ" and "After Death" in a quite literal sense. The looks of revelatory confusion on their faces are priceless when I point out that such associations leave ~30 years floating in between with no way to historically label them.
Granted, most people know better. But for the few that don't, this is a guilty pleasure for me.
I would say it's used largely by people who have much of their work made public. It's always been my impression "BCE" was concocted for political correctness, well before PC became mandat--, er, proper.
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I know what it stands for, but thanks. My point is, there are those who DO think it means After Death, and just never thought about it closely enough to realize that it doesn't make sense. This isn't theoretical, I've met such people.
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