Moving your answer doesn't make it any better, CTD.
Upon discovery of the note there is no simply "true" hypothesis. The existence of the note is a fact, and for those present it's pretty well beyond dispute.
There is one truth, and the note is part of that truth. The object is to discover what the truth is, and not to make the evidence fit any preset story.
Having a valid alternative is a good enough reason to reject premature conclusions which are not the result of verification and reconciliation.
And the only source for verification and reconciliation with reality is the objective evidence of reality.
You seem to think there is something special about history, but it is just as prone to error as any other form of information known to man, and there are many instances where history was wrong.
Um, well, actually worldwide sedimentary deposits are pretty consistent with a worldwide flood if you think about it.
The sedimentary deposits are very consistent with the areas in question being underwater for decades to hundreds of years at a time. Multiple layers with evidence of
mature life that is 20, 30 40 years old piled up layer upon layer upon layer. The
cliffs of Dover are hundreds of feet thick. Sediment layers on Mt. Everest include brachiopods that grow on slender delicate stalks, with shell size based on age of the organism, again in an environment that was mature marine growth of several decades at any point in those layers, and the layers again cover layers that cover layers. Last time I checked that does not fit your mythology. Care to explain how a 20 year old organism is evidence for a biblical flood?
It is valid to conclude that there is one truth. It is not valid to assume it can be discovered in all cases. We don't possess evidence of every event which has ever taken place. If we did, we could approach omniscience.
Correct, so anything that has not been validated in any way as true, such as the mythology that there was a biblical flood, should be held with extreme skepticism. Likewise any claim for a young earth.
I trust you agree. Or do you employ the logical fallacy of special pleading?
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