[spycatcher]

If there's evidence of a culture of some sort, it isn't invalid bacuse Plato or others wrote a story about something similar. An ancient flood was considered a mythological story as well until recently when hard evidence was found of cities under the Black Sea.

So don't base your concept of reality on old stories. I hope you see the irony that you are indeed doing that -- just as you tell others not to. There's no need to feel threatened when evidence arises that changes how we see the world and the past. It happens every day and we don't want you to have a heart attack!

[jackbob]

There's no need to feel threatened when evidence arises that changes how we see the world and the past.

Very interesting. It seems that we have only slightly scratched the surface of the wonders yet to be discovered here on this small rock earth. You provide a service to FR, bringing out this topic, without jumping to some old (or new) speculative conclusion, as so often occurs with these types of discoveries.

[cogitator]

An ancient flood was considered a mythological story as well until recently when hard evidence was found of cities under the Black Sea.

They haven't recovered definitive evidence of habitation on the shore of the freshwater lake that existed in the Black Sea basin before the inundation broke through the Bosporus. Bob Ballard brought up some material that was fashioned by humans, but it was modern contamination (i.e. something that sunk to the point where it was found). However, the show that I say (National Geographic Explorer) indicated that the soil provided evidence of human habitation at the time of the inundation, but I haven't heard anything about that from any other source.