From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   reader wrote:   
   > When multiple coppies of the same document are known the odds of them being   
   > in the line of of n original are greatly increased.   
      
   If multiple copies exist and none of them date within 600 years of the   
   supposed original, that's not true at all.   
      
   > If one only found copies of the declaration of independence it is a   
   > reasonable conclusion to think they all point to an original of the same   
   > content.   
      
   You failed to read a word I typed...   
      
   We know where the original is. Washington DC could vanish tomorrow and   
   we'd still know that the copies are a copy of an original that was located at   
   the National Archives. We do not have any of this with ancient "sources."   
   The copies appear when & where they do, with almost never so much as a   
   hint of whatever source document they were allegedly copied from.   
      
   We do not know everyday recipes!  We can and do fill volumes with things   
   about ancient Rome which are a mystery to us -- common things! We have   
   no clue why Roman fell apart from the extremely generic "Barbarians broke   
   stuff."   
      
      
      
      
      
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