The Ancient City of Atlantis
 

Do you believe that it existed? Or do you think it is 100% myth? I haven't done enough research just yet to come to a conclusion, but what exactly is the best evidence of it's existence? Plato's writings only?

With the way civilizations have risen and fallen throughout history I don't see why they couldn't have existed.

atlantis was the civilization before the flood

yes it did.

The rumor and conjecture compiled with Plato's very vague description would make it seem not plausible as described, though there is a very interesting find in the proper area yet it does not match "Plato's" description so it has been dismissed.

I think it existed.

The common theory is that it sat on Thera prior to the great eruption that's also thought to be the main source for most of Egypt's plagues during the time of Moses.

This planet has been here for millions of years. Who knows what was here before the dinosaurs. Tons of things are possible.

Yea I read somewhere that Plato basically made it up to help illustrate his political ideas or something like that...

Before the dinosaurs, lol?

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It's definitely possible that there was a comparatively advanced civilization, or even several, that got wiped out in some great natural disaster. Of course Plato's account would be either exaggeration brought on through time, or pure fabrication based on legends (which tend to have a pint-sized grain of truth holding them up) of the time.

Sure.. it wasn't "high tech" like in sci-fi novels but I certainly believe that it did indeed exist and that it was probably fairly advanced for the time period.

thought it was santorini? or are are they the same?

If a great big rock from space and come and totally wipe out everything on the planet, chances are an island could drop off in to the sea and not be seen again.

God on the other hand, is a myth.

they are the same:winkwink:

http://www.greekisland.co.uk/maps/map_santorini.jpg

Awww almost! There were no plagues.

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there are things happened that we couldn't explain.. I'm still between fact and farce:)

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I put it simply because honestly a lot of science reverts to guess work and conjecture during the pre Mesozoic age.

Anything longer than 245million years ago they are basically guessing.

The Paleozoic era are times where the mass extinctions occurred, which they still don't fully understand.

Anything could have happened then. Let's not even discuss the precambrian age. If they can't fully explain what happened during the Paleozoic age then anything was possible during the Precambrian age. As I said before, looking how relatively fast developed civilizations have risen and fallen in the past 4000 years absolutely anything is possible.

Oh, and when I say "before the dinosaurs" I mean the Precambrian age. Smart asses.

Here is an artist's rendition of how Plato described Atlantis:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...is_picture.jpg

Big words won't change the fact that Atlantis civilization was AFTER the dinosaurs.

After the Dinosaurs? Dude, Atlantis is a story. Nothing more. It was meant to be a template for his vision of a perfect society. For you to argue about what era it existed is about as smart as arguing how big Noah's Ark was. I think most scholars will back me up in my thinking.

My argument is that a highly evolved civilization like Atlantis could have truly existed. Could it have been the one Plato saw in his busy mind? That's very possible. Plato's vision of the when and where it happend? Not so likely... unless you believe in Greek Gods and all the other madness that surrounded his idea.

Still I say anything is possible a long time ago. A city like Atlantis could have existed a long long time ago. Much longer than 11k years though. I think our perception of how and when intelligent life existed or could have existed on this planet is waay too short time-wise. There's lots of years, cycles of life and possible origins of life to play with.

To think that Atlantis is 10,000 years old and all the technological wonders that they had somehow didn't trickle down to anyone else on Earth is ludicrous. If something like that existed it goes back many years. Long enough for the technology and the civilization to become extinct and forgotten.

But hey, maybe it was just 11 k years ago. The Japanese had to have come from somewhere. You don't create great hardware companies like Sony, look as different as they do and enjoy blowing eels out your ass if you don't have a different kinda highly evolved yet self destructive lineage.

So, anyway, Aico tell me, did it rain for 40 days and 40 nights or was it 39 days and 40 nights? Please, break that down for me since you have the hard facts of real history events such as these.

Ya, I am pretty sure any society in history be it a story or real, was after the dinosaurs. I don't know, call me crazy, but I have a hunch.