Atlantis... in the Spanish mud flats...

I read that in the news this morning, too. A fascinating find.

 

That's way cool.

 

I watched the national geographic special on it last night, and was thoroughly disappointed. Trust me, it's not what you think. They didn't even do any digging.

 

+1 on the coolness.
(Rae, are those your footses?)

But all the world does not accept the possible discovery as meaningful.

"The author [of the following, one James I. Nienhuis] is a young
earth creationist, who is commenting on how mainstream scientists and
New Agers are missing the boat (willfully in many cases) as they
interpret the evidences about our ancient history."

"National Geographic premiered Finding Atlantis over the weekend,
about submerged ruins in the marshland of Dona Ana national park
near Cadiz, Spain (at the mouth of the Guadalquiver river), while but
many more stone block ruins have been reported and down deeper at
locations from Gibraltar up to Huelva (and off Morocco too), so why
then are those deeper and clearly also bronze age ruins ignored and
not discussed by mainstream academics? Can you say ice age end,
‘though unthinkable to the darwinists? "

More (or less depending on your views) at Dancing from Genesis

FWIW, the blog is closed to comments, and none are displayed. :target:

 

I call shenanigans on the "find." The real Atlantis, as we all know, is located (or was) in the pegasus galaxy.

 

Well we are all now well aware of how a powerful tsunami can cause great destruction, so that theory of Atlantis's demise is possible. Fortunately, this is the type of thing that will either develop into something really significant or fizzle out as more real science is done. Being buried in mud flats makes for really hard research, but provides fantastic preservation and protection from looters.

 

I thought Atlantis was in Galt's Gulch?

 

Meh...looks like psuedo-science is becoming more popular with regular news sources. I've seen some "Atlantis" specials on the Discovery channel...which usually resorts to just a few of the main proponents of Atlantis debating about which acient find is the real "Atlantis". I believe in the main academic assertion in that it was a typical Plato dialogue (in which he told stories to draw analogies of real life events). Probably before his time, there could have been a city or two that were succombed from a tsunami. Just as though there could have been cities that succombed to floods (since several religions mention a flood).

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis]Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

You sure you're qualified to critique the grammar of other posters?

 

Well with you Trebuchet, I certainly am:thumb: BTW, good for you for finally learning how to use "you're" in a sentence!!arty: Though it would have been better if you started your sentence with Are

 

Wow, now there's a fella quite full of himself :thumb: shouldn't that be 'although' Mr. Grammar Nazi?

 

Poor baby Trebuchet doesn't know that though is an accepted word:

Though - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

 

Yes, those are my very own!

 

Although is more often and correctly used at the beginning of it's clause whereas 'though' may occur elsewhere and is the more common term when used to link words or phrases.

It's a matter of style, and yours is either lacking or awkward. :yo:

 

Why does it not surprise me that Trebuchet finds my choice

'either lacking or awkward. "? :boink: Trebuchet dictionary also doesn't seem to know that "although" and "though" can both be used as conjuctions.

Anywho, this is enough thread crapping...:focus:

 

How could a tsunami destroy Atlantis yet leave it intact to be buried? After seeing Aceh and Sendai, I have a seriously hard time imagining such a scenario.

 

Depends on what the building material was. It's deeply impressive how much can be recreated from a debris pile by experts.

 

It also depends on the extent of the catastrophe. No man made building is going to survive the worst catastrophe/ weathering (pyramids included...as of now, the main destruction they've faced is de-facing of lime-stone for Cairo). The main archeological dig, of this character, that I know about is Port Royal...there was one early excavation as well as a more recent one. It's also a bit more placebo where it has a few map references of the time period (to see how maps of that time period differ from accurate plotting).

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake]1692 Jamaica earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]