The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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There are plenty of people - particularly influential voices - who are still open to alternatives, such as that the text is meaningless.

But these theories too were proposed only because the naive theory "simple substitution cipher of an European language" failed, and people were convinced that "if it is a meaningful text, the language must be European" because of the physical features and illustrations.  

Again - how do you know this?  This seems an assumption and a sweeping one.