>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.   
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   >If multiple copies exist and none of them date within 600 years of the   
   >supposed original, that's not true at all.   
      
      
   Sorry old chap, that is 557.3 years, not 600   
      
   The rest of this "jut so" story is irrelevnt in the extreme for those who   
    have experience and actually work in such matters where such documents   
   are the staple.   
      
   Besides, we get fresh copies of them daily from the ufo time machines.   
      
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   >> 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.   
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   >You failed to read a word I typed...   
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   >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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