Quote: we should drop that.
I will not tell you what to do, but this is a discussion forum. Let's discuss.
The fact that no one has fallen off the flat side of the earth, for 1000 years (or more), as we know, makes it plausible that the earth is not flat.
Makes an historical fact a very strong argument.
The cold war.
The fact that it could happen that a nuke war, would destroy the earth is so strong, that this ended the cold war.
There was no nuclear war, but the fact that the threat is real made us realize that some day it easily could go wrong.
Historical things that did not happen could still give a very strong signal.
The fact that the PLANTS in the manuscript do resemble, but have never been matched fully with any existing plant,
for over 600 years, is a very strong argument, that is very likely that they do Not represent real plants directly at all.