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Interesting question and topic.
being a devout Atheist I couldn’t care less about using Christianity or any other mythological religious figures birthday as the focus point of our calendar, in my opinion the birth of Christ has no bearing on life and indeed has never been a proven fact anyway, it just stems from a darker time when the church reigned over the known world. luckily we are all a bit cleverer today but these antique legacies still plague us, thank goodness we at least adopted the metric system, if only the yanks would catch up.
However, the calendar system we currently have works, and atheist or not I don’t believe in fixing things that aren’t broken, the Julian date is very logical and works much like metric, it is easy to calculate between two dates (most computer programmers use this method for software) but it just isn’t needed enough in day to day life to make such a huge change to our society.
One last thing, If you were going to create a dating system (like the Julian one) and the known earliest Astronomical records dated back to 4713Bc then how anal retentive would you have to be to choose that particular date, why not just round off to 4500bc and make it easier to remember and to calculate? Man there are some weird scientists fixated on specifics. BTW, what astronomical event occurred in 4713Bc, who recorded it and how was it recorded?
Cheers, Dennis.
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