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Old 02-25-2008, 04:10 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Solon View Post
It's like finding a credit card slip from 1955 on a Native American reservation and concluding that the Indians might have used credit cards before the white man arrived.

Sure, maybe. . .
I understand the observation and agree they should not use such stuff as proof. However, wasn't the initial criticism, "well, nobody in the ancient world used sealed documents."

So they find some unrelated in time examples and took the argument too far.
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