[Other] The Voynich Garden

[asteckley]

One of the criteria is the C-14 analysis. Even if plants look like this, American plants do not belong to it.
Old assignments made before 2010 to America are wrong.

You have a lot of good stuff there. Thanks for posting.

I agree that the C-14 evidence is some of the most certain that there is regarding the manuscript (although it is not absolutely certain by any means -- the radiocarbon dating process is neither simple nor definitive).

But if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it might just turn out to be a duck ... even if it isn't near a pond.

Certainly, any final theory on the overall manuscript would have to reconcile the issue of C-14 dating.
But assuming that the C-14 evidence itself is not only certain but that one's assumptions about what that evidence implies regarding the origin and history of the manuscript are also certain, can be a mistake.  

I'm not arguing for the Meso-American theory by any means. Only pointing out that discarding what one sees before them on one aspect of the problem (i.e. identifying drawings of plants) because of one's firmly held assumptions regarding some other aspect (that is not directly connected) is reminiscent of how physicists could not accept the experimental evidence on the speed of light because of their resolute, but erroneous assumption regarding the existence and necessity of the aether.