05-27-2026, 11:04 AM
(05-27-2026, 10:57 AM)Trelane Wrote: The main problem is outside of Plato's tale , there is nothing from ancient times (any civilization) documenting this cataclysmic event (as described). Additionally, there is simply nothing in the geologic record to point to as an "Aha!" moment. This all stems from people reading all the latter works (that huckster Donnelly and fraud Cayce) and then not truly understanding what Plato was truly driving at with his story.
Certainly, no world-scale flooding event has ever been detected.
Even the late Pleistocene megafloods don't tick that box...
Then again, the world back then, to a mere person, was pretty much as far as he could see to the horizon.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."




