New Post: "I Do Listen to the Experts. Do YOU?"

[asteckley]

@asteckley
You write "Likewise, we have plant identification experts that have found the plant drawings resemble plants found in America." Now I have to ask, which experts? I don't know of a single expert on plants who has written anything about the VM manuscript - plants.

Really? Perhaps you should read Rich's article, and then obtain the writings of Janick and Tucker. Janick is a "distinguished professor of horticulture " and Tucker is an "internationally renowned botanist and is the co-founder and director of DSU's Claude E. Phillips Herbarium."  Together they have written two books "about the VM manuscript - plants". 

You may not like their observations -- I don't myself agree with all of them, not the extent of the similarities nor with their inferences regarding the manuscript's origins -- but arguing that they are not "experts" with relevant expertise in recognizing plant similarities, or that they have not "written anything about the VM manuscript", well that's just silly and doesn't really warrant any further discussion.

Your other comments are worthy points in discussing and reconciling a wider body of evidence, but you cannot use them to invalidate basic observations. With respect, I'm afraid you are entirely missing the point regarding the conflation of implications with observational conclusions.