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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5377035, member: 19463"]When I was in college (class of 1968) we were taught that 'Homer' was not one person but a class of travelling entertainers who recited traditional stories that had been developing for centuries entirely from memory. The question was, "Who wrote the Illiad?" The answer was,</p><p>"Homer or another Greek by the same name." Later, someone wrote them down. The adoption of writing ended the need for memorization over time so we, today, have trouble accepting the possibility of people memorizing long works but the number of people who have memorized the Koran shows that this is quite reasonable. No theory can be proven to a complete lack of doubt. History is not a good subject for those who require everything to be black or white. It turns out that neither is science or anything else that can reside in the human mind but that is another unprovable matter best left to the philosophers. It is a bit like we say on fake coins. Many coins can be shown to be false but we tread on dangerous ground when we believe 100% that we can spot every last fake made in the past and that will be made in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5377035, member: 19463"]When I was in college (class of 1968) we were taught that 'Homer' was not one person but a class of travelling entertainers who recited traditional stories that had been developing for centuries entirely from memory. The question was, "Who wrote the Illiad?" The answer was, "Homer or another Greek by the same name." Later, someone wrote them down. The adoption of writing ended the need for memorization over time so we, today, have trouble accepting the possibility of people memorizing long works but the number of people who have memorized the Koran shows that this is quite reasonable. No theory can be proven to a complete lack of doubt. History is not a good subject for those who require everything to be black or white. It turns out that neither is science or anything else that can reside in the human mind but that is another unprovable matter best left to the philosophers. It is a bit like we say on fake coins. Many coins can be shown to be false but we tread on dangerous ground when we believe 100% that we can spot every last fake made in the past and that will be made in the future.[/QUOTE]
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