18th November 2008, 10:54 PM
I'm not saying that it may not have been true considering the other evidence, I'm saying that you can't just assume that document is true because it fits with what you already know. By that standard, I could just write a speech by Abraham Lincoln about human rights and standing for them and all that noise and you'd say it fits with what we know about him so it must be real.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)