[NC28203]

>>>Then the Jews should use their historical calendar, which dates back over 5,700 years. BCE" and "CE" are PC terms used by liberals and other assorted haters of Western civilization to denigrate the Christian roots of that civilization

Again, not all practitioners of this science have Christian roots. Your suggestion would create unnecessary confusion with the Israelis using one calendar, the Chinese using another calendar, the Persians another and so on. The use of BCE and CE provides a common measure. When science uses mulitple units of measure problems can result. Confusion between metric and English measurements by NASA led to the destruction of the Challenger.

[RightWhale]

Confusion between metric and English measurements by NASA led to the destruction of the

One of the Mars landers was lost this way.

[Wallace T.]

The days of the week and months of the year in the English language refer to the gods and religious calendars of ancient Germanic and Greco-Roman paganism. Yet English speaking Christians and non-Christians use these common terms irrespective of their pagan origins. Likewise, Chinese, Israelis, Indians, Japanese, et. al., used the AD/BC terminology for many years until the liberals in academia came up with the CE/BCE substitute.

[ZULU]

"The use of BCE and CE provides a common measure."

Not really.
The terms are only relevant to Christians and Jews.

The fact is you have to pick SOME date as a reference point and doing so is quite difficult.

Using an invention is not practical as many early inventions are of uncertain date.

Ditto any birthdays of an important historical figure, including Christ.

The fact is the AD and BC system has been in use the longest, most historical books used that system - until recently, and the CE and BCE is a politically correct attempt to employ a date independent of a western religious figure, which, in effect, is not.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Again, not all practitioners of this science have Christian roots.

I don't follow the Roman gods and yet I use the word "June" to describe the 6th month. I don't follow the Norse gods and yet I use the words "Thursday" and "Friday" to describe days of the week.

Why do I do that when I don't follow the religions who named them? Because of continuity with the rest of the world.

Likewise all scientists who lacked Christian roots used the Gregorian calender, and it's breaking point of BC/AD, since 1582 (most of Europe) or 1752 (Britain and it's colonies). Only in the last few decades has the use of BCE/CE come into practice.

Ironic because the breaking point was the historic birth of Christ, which was the whole event anti-Christians were trying to ignore by changing the nomenclature. So I guess what brought us into the "Common Era" was the birth of Jesus, right?