You're committing the fallacy of "false dichotomy". There are more options than "inherited or imagined". Knowledge based on good information, research, and counter-confirmation (review of contradictory sources) is better than information that lacks one or more of those. Age is not a characteristic that inherently adds or removes credibility.No. Inherited knowledge beats imagination with no logical necessity. That's a fact for history.
A restatement of the above.Inherited knowledge is better than imagination in history. We don't need god's power to know everything. Some things are good enough & certain enough by human world standard. It's standard in history.