Who's Afraid of the Mayan Calendar?

The London Free Press ^ | March 25, 2009 | Thane Burnett

[a fool in paradise]

“I luv, I luv, I luv My Calendar Girl...”

but Yma Sumac is Incan.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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[editor-surveyor]

"Works such as Michael Drosnin's bestseller The Bible Code predict space meteors may plow into the earth."

I know that Drosnin was into wild assertions, but "The Bible Codes" makes no such claim.

[editor-surveyor]

"We already agree that our calendar is wrong, off by anywhere from 2 to 16 years, depending on who’s doing the reckoning"

All that has been ironed out in recent years, and the calendar error has been fixed at approximately two years. By our calendar, Christ was born on September 29, 2 B.C. (The Feast of Tabernacles fell on 9-29 that year)

"...and further in error because of the absence of a year zero."

Did you have a hard time with algebra?

A year zero would really foul up our number system. Zero is a place, but not a year. It is the beginning of the first year, A.D. and the ending of the first year B.C. This makes the calendar work perfectly with our number system.