Reply #29: No, I don't know the people who dug up Troy. Not personally. [View All]

So I guess they didn't exist either. It's just reductio ad absurdum.

By the way, if you think that 1300 was a year of amazing creativity, on what do you base that opinion? You weren't there. And asserting that would be inconsistent with your own position. After all, about that time would be when Dante would have been writing the Divine Comedy--but for some reason, that there could have been such a person seems beyond possibility, or at least beyond satisfactory proof. Which is it?

The only way this makes any sense is to assume that each age has nothing better to do than pass its own works off as the works of the previous, because men prefer to toil anonymously creating great works of anachronistic fiction.