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"Still claiming that the description fits seems like hammering the evidence to fit the theory to me."

I have an open mind. I'll even list to your ideas about Atlantis.

What are they?

I have an open mind. I'll even list to your ideas about Atlantis.

IDEAS are exactly what that dude who wrote the article is expressing. His own ideas and fantasies. Nothing to do with science or even theory.

The difference between an idea and a theory is that one makes a great bedtime story and the other requires evidence.

I loat articles like the above since they take a personal idea of the writer and ducktape "evidence" to it using talk that a conartist would be proud of, yet contains little if any logic and voila! Instant pseudoscience.

If the writer had stuck to expressing an idea without bothering to prove it with his ultra-subjective rantings it would be a nice article.

If the writer had an idea which could be proven without having to hammer square proof into the huge round holes in his theory then it would have been a GREAT article!

Alas, he chose the ill-walked path of the inbetween, rendering the article useless as either entertainment or science. Otherwize known as pseudoscience.

Yet, this is what the masses want right? I personally prefer the truth. I couldnt have cared whether a Sundaland existed or not, or Atlantis, or where they where located. But if someone makes any claims can expects people to believe them, they better back it up with EVIDENCE. Which I have yet to detect in these articles.

I have an open mind. I'll even list to your ideas about Atlantis.

I learn a lot on the periphery of your Atlantis posts, but Plato was just being Plato with his technique of burying dialogues within sets of narratives and having them told to us by unquestionable sources. His story of Atlantis (in 'Timaeus' and 'Critas,' where the politically opposite states of Athens and Atlantis are examined - both founded by Gods and settled by their descendants) is beyond the reach of the most reliable Egyptian records. And oral tradition is notoriously unreliable.

In Plato's 'Symposium,' humans were originally a race of Siamese twins, but I can't find anybody out there looking for Siamese twins in the fossil record.