The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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That is not correct.  The probability of the Chinese theory(CT) being correct depends on how likely the VMs contents would be if the theory were correct, compared to how likely that would be if the theory were false. The probability of those weirdos being there on page f1r is higher if the CT were true than if it were false.  Because the CT provides a scenario that would result in those characters, while other theories don't.

"the CT provides a scenario that would result in those characters, while other theories don't"

I don't think this is correct. First of all there have been many explanations for these characters. Only recently user Dobri You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. a tentative match between these glyphs and a certain European medieval script. I'm not arguing for Dobri's explanation, I'm just stating that alternative explanations, that do not involve unlikely sequences of events, do exist.

What is more, I don't think the weirdos look like any Chinese characters I know, even upside down. Chinese script on the elementary level consist of individual strokes. There are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. These rules make the Chinese characters readable in many shapes and styles and the Chinese characters allow for a lot of flexibility in shape, as long as the strokes follow these rules. I don't think any of the red weirdos correspond to a valid Chinese character on a stroke by stroke basis, even if they look superficially similar to Chinese characters like 兀. This is not the way these characters are written, the stroke types are just wrong.

Of course one can say that this is an imperfect copy made by the Scribe from an imperfect copy made by the Author. But then again, this could be a copy of anything then, not necessarily Chinese characters. This could be a copy of Linear B or Germanic Runes then just as likely.

Is there any single specific piece of evidence pointing towards the Eastern origin of the manuscript?