Emil
A Burnt Child
If the Earth is approx 4.6 Billion years old, why do we still refer to Earth being 2011 years old? Shouldn't we be more respectful to actual date of how old the Earth is...I know it's nice to say to your Mum that she is younger than she is, but come on this is the Earth we live on. What makes it even worse is that we are all accept that Jesus Christ was born approx 2011 years ago...doesn't that make it seem a bit weird for Atheists and other religions and cultures to base Earth's present date on something that has not been 100% proven. If they had based it on Henry VIII's reign or The Battle of Hastings, that would have made much more sense as at least we know we have 100% proof that it happened.
We don't. We now live in the year 2011 A.D. (Anno Domini), i.e. 2011 years since Jesus was born (the opposite being B.C. - before Christ). 2011 is not counted since the supposed birth of the earth. And I'd say that it is quite likely that the historic figure Jesus actually has existed but he wasn't born 2011 years ago though since someone sometime counted wrong with a few years. And not all religions and cultues live 2011 A.D., e.g. I am quite sure that the muslim world has a calendar of their own; counting from when Muhammad had his revelation or retuned to Mekka or something similar. I also belive that China has their own calendar and a different year than we have and probably more religions/cultures.