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Many DCUM posters do not respond to main points but go off on tangents … sigh …[/quote]
I don’t understand how dating the earthquake pinpoints the date of death. Doesn’t that assume that the accounts of an earthquake happening at that exact moment are accurate?[/quote]

No,[b] the ancient seismometers are very reliable.[/b] [/quote]

That's not the part I'm questioning. What I'm saying is (1) even if we accept that this earthquake happened on this day, what is (2) the proof that Jesus was crucified on the same day/at the same moment as the earthquake? In order to accept #2, we have to believe that (a) the onlookers are recalling everything exactly as it happened and (b) the story, as handed down, hasn't changed. There is no objective proof of (a) or (b) (I understand that people of faith don't need objective proof, I'm talking about whether pinpointing the date of an earthquake = objective proof of the date and time of the crucifixion).[/quote]

people wrote accounts of it shortly afterward.

if someone wrote about WWII 30 years afterwards for example, particularly someone who lived during WWII, isn't that still an account?  [/quote]

“Accounts” from third-hand sources aren’t “proof”.  
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