The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

one day forgot himself and added a microscope, an armadillo, sunflower, cells, and a spiral galaxy.

This is not an argument.  Those were highly strained interpretations by people who were trying to prove specific origin theories (American native lore, or a super-genius centuries ahead of its time).  The C14 dating made it obvious that those interpretations were just old-fashioned NI hallucinations (NI = Natural Intelligence).

(Just to be clear, I think it is highly unlikely that Marci's letter or the VMS are modern forgeries.  I have another "Wilfrid's foul play" theory, but it assumes that both are genuine.  And I think this alternative theory is possible but still rather unlikely.)

All the best, --stolfi