Christians; how do you regard Hinduism?

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501. Well, if that is your (very narrow) claim, then fine.

But I was responding to your assertion that there is "no aspect of the claimed existence of mathematics or the alphabet for which there is insufficient evidence." I still maintain that this is rubbish. Whether the symbols are chosen "arbitrarily" (a proposition I also disagree with, unless by "arbitrary" you mean "culled and adopted by tacit agreement over time&quot or systematically, what is not well understood, and what we have little evidence of, is the unifying characteristic of effective alphabets - their universality as tools.

And I still have no particular reason to believe that a sufficiently advanced alien culture would lack a decodable, universal notation system, irrespective of the discrete symbols chosen.

As for Chinese, while there is no original alphabet, there are and have been many Chinese alphabets, both discrete and adaptive to western alphabetic notations. They are principally the reason that China can communicate with the rest of the world, and the world with China.