The Legend of Atlantis & The Science of Geology
Atlantis & Geology
Atlantis! Whether or not a continent recently existed in the Atlantic Ocean and sank beneath the waves in a major catastrophe is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating mysteries in the world today. Despite the denials and dismissals of orthodox science, the Atlantis legend continues to maintain its grip on the public's imagination. At the same time, the sinking of an island continent in the middle of the North Atlantic must be a matter for geology.
The question before us, from the geological point of view then, is a fairly simple one: Is there any evidence in the geological record suggesting major catastrophes such as those described in Plato's legend, involving large-scale flooding, major earthquakes or anything else that might imply a catastrophic origin?
Despite what today's establishment geology maintains, with its gradualistic uniformitarian approach to all aspects of the science, a catastrophic origin is the only explanation that can account for much of the evidence in a scientific way, evidence that, as will be shown in this series, is impossible to explain via uniformitarianism.
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The public, of course, is assured that the science of geology has all the answers, and is kept more or less completely unaware of the existence of any problematic issues or inexplicable phenomena, and the inadequate theories proffered to explain them.
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In this series, I will be presenting a very different geological history of this planet, one that has a major bearing on the Atlantis question and which is considerably more energetic and exciting than the current version.
Changing Everything You Thought You Knew About Atlantis
This series will present a solution to the mystery of Atlantis---and a very different geological history of our planet.
About the Author
The author graduated from University College Cork, Ireland, in 1986 with a Batchelor's degree in geology and began his career as a professional geologist working on water resources and environmental geology in both Ireland and the United States. Finding that the work of a geologist did not really appeal to him, he left the field and pursued his keen interest in the science of geology independently. His interest in the earth sciences was matched only by his interest in ancient archaeology, and the meeting of the two.
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Driven by a primary interest in the enigma of the Ice Age, the author embarked on a quest to solve what is probably the greatest mystery in geology, undeterred by the many decades of prior and futile efforts that had preceded his. Growing up near formerly glaciated landscapes in Ireland, and living among them in the Northeastern U.S., he became very familiar with the evidence the Ice Age supposedly left behind.
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Careful observation, an eye for detail, and an open mind enabled the author to achieve insights previously missed or obscured by an excessive adherence to gradualistic academic doctrine. Having found the need to question everything he’d learnt at university, his review of the geological sciences extended back to the early years of the science, to a time when catastrophism was the dominant view of earth history.
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Apart from an effort to solve the Atlantis mystery, therefore, the major scientific question the author attempts to answer is whether modern-day gradualist uniformitarianism is correct or whether some form of the rejected catastrophism of the early days holds the better answer. And, after thirty years of study, the author considers the latter to be the more correct.
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The author's approach to his analysis of the Atlantis legend and the science of geology is based solely on the evidence and underpinned by the laws of physics, and, using much scientific evidence and those same laws of physics, this series seeks to demonstrate that the geological history of this world may well be very different to what orthodox academic geology says it is, and lost Atlantis may indeed be very much a reality.
From Within the Pages . . .
"There are any number of unexplained, and apparently inexplicable, archaeological remains scattered about the world, along with various puzzles regarding humanity and its level of advancement, all of which parallel the many unanswered questions in the various fields of geology, and, indeed, are often very pertinent to those questions."
"The mystery of Atlantis, or more generally, the former existence and sudden sinking of a landmass in the Atlantic Ocean is denied by Academic geology because it conflicts with the main basic premise of the science - that everything happens extremely slowly, and all that ever happens, or has happened, is what we see happening around us every day."
"A number of other things struck me as rather peculiar, not the least of which was that despite the tens of thousands of geologists, of all specialties, who have been studying this planet of ours for well over two hundred years now, we have theories for almost everything but we're certain of almost nothing. How could this be?"