Legend of Atlantis and The Science of Geology (eBook)

GENERAL SERIES OUTLINE

THE FOLLOWING PROVIDES A PRELIMINARY OUTline of the overall series, which, thus far, is estimated to involve eight volumes, each of 300 to 400 pages or so. While some early volumes are complete, or almost so, and others drafted to a certain extent, later volumes have not yet been taken much beyond the outline stage. The series has, however, been generally planned out, and much of the research material obtained, and because I have been researching for the past thirty years or so, I have already read many of the books and papers that will be used in such later volumes.

Volume 1

We begin with Atlantis, starting with the legend itself. We first examine it to see what it tells us of the island continent and the North Atlantic. The legend also speaks of Greece and the Aegean, and we leave those for volume 2. A brief look at the relevant sections of the legend follows, especially those parts referring to the destruction. We then analyze the legend from the point of view of mythology, including what ancient writers said of it. Next comes a classical and philological analysis. We finish up volume 1 with chapters on the relatively new discipline of geomythology. This is the official, if we can call it that, academic treatment of myths and legends from a geological point of view, and apart from Atlantis, we look at myths from various places. We hear a lot from people both within and without academia, and we see that attitudes and opinions are not so monolithically united as academia would like the public to believe.

Volume 2

We continue with Atlantis and what the priest has to say about Greece and the Aegean. Being done with mythology at this point, this volume is almost entirely geological in nature. We first see what the legend says, and then we look at the recent structural geology of the Aegean area as well as mainland Greece. It is here we meet the Ice Age for the first time, as well as many of the sacred so-called Principles of Geology. Greece, as we’ll see, is littered with surface deposits of various kinds, mostly concentrated in the valleys, as might be expected, having been washed in there by something. And it is the “something” that is interesting; it must, of course, be able to do the work asked of it, and we will see just what it is being asked to do. Greece also has much palaeontology of interest, especially with regard to the animals that went extinct at the end of the Ice Age. We may be surprised at just how much evidence there is on Greece to support the view that the Atlantis legend has considerable validity, and, by the same token, we may also find that we cannot say the same for uniformitarianism.

Volume 3

Volume 3 is devoted entirely to Great Floods, scientific, historical, and legendary, focusing particularly on Noah’s, and its Sumerian equivalents, the latter possibly being the original source. Apart from minor amounts of mythology and a look at other writers’ claims, this volume is almost entirely archaeological and geological. Noah’s Flood, like Atlantis, has long been dismissed or, in this case, written off as just a local flood. In Mesopotamia, the supposed site of the Flood, we will see if there is any evidence for a major flood having swept over the region at about the correct historical or legendary time. This volume, like this series in general, is an unbiased, non-ideological, and solely scientific look at the great floods of Mesopotamian legend. However, based on what we will have just seen on Greece, we may have to extend our enquiries further back into the past to see what happened in Mesopotamia and the surrounding region at about the time of Atlantis’ destruction.

Volume 4

Leaving geology for a while, we focus on the archaeology of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye, the Levant, and around to Egypt. We continue on to Libya and Malta, with some brief mention of sites in the western Mediterranean, before moving out into the Atlantic. The archaeological evidence that we will examine, in the form of buildings mostly, is generally referred to as megalithic, meaning construction that involves the use of very large (mega) blocks of stone (lithic). What is problematic about them is that they are all extremely old on the one hand and inexplicable from the point of view of engineering on the other. They appear to predate everything else, as though from an early and advanced civilization. In association with the archaeology, we include some geology of the Levant and especially the Nile Valley, the Sahara, and North Africa. We will find some very strange archaeological remains in Egypt and other places, as well as fossils and other surprising evidence in the bone-dry Sahara.

Volume 5

We begin our study of the Atlantic by defining its general structure and its various provinces, as well as its terrestrial surroundings and any islands. We study the surrounding shores, the continental shelves, and the nature of the lands and landforms bordering the ocean on both sides. We then begin an exploration of the depths and follow the first of the oceanographers of the 19th century, the telegraph cable layers, and the first scientific expeditions from different countries, and the surprising finds they made. It is here we meet much of the hard evidence for the former, and recent, existence of land in the Atlantic.

Moving into the 20th century, we get much more information from more modern oceanography. Better sampling equipment was in use, and the findings now get even more interesting and much more difficult for the uniformitarians to explain (or explain away). We also discuss the many features of the seafloor, such as fjords, undersea canyons, seamounts, earthquakes, undersea and subaerial volcanism, and, of course, the mid-Atlantic ridge. Much of what will be presented here is evidence that hasn’t heretofore been recognized or officially acknowledged for what it actually is, but it certainly suggests the former existence of large masses of dry land in the central North Atlantic Ocean.

We finish out this volume with a focus on the biological evidence from both sides of the ocean and from islands in it. It demonstrates the similarities and, in many cases, identicality of many animal and plant species from both sides and on their recency, in that these species have not been isolated from each other for very long. We will also see that most of the species, of either type, cannot travel or survive in seawater. They also couldn’t migrate by any other means, as has often been suggested. Included in this volume also is a section on archaeology, from both sides of the ocean, as well as, surprisingly perhaps, the ocean floor itself.

Volume 6

We begin our study of geology proper with an overview of the history of the science, beginning in Europe and followed by Britain and the United States. We are really only interested here in the 19th century but will refer to the 18th and extend, to a certain degree, into the 20th. We first discuss the development of the science and its theories, and we’ll discuss catastrophism and uniformitarianism along with the Ice Age and so forth.

We then analyze all the geological processes that we’ve been persuaded are so effective at wearing down this world of ours, whether it be rain, rivers, ice, glaciers, and so on. Here we use a lot of common sense, everyday experience, eyesight, and lots and lots of simple physics. We also meet a lot of imaginary processes and agents dreamt up and drafted in to do the work that Charles Lyell’s uniformitarianism patently cannot do, some of which we meet in volume 2. We also have a good look at catastrophism and why it remains a favored explanation.

Volume 7

This volume is dedicated to the Ice Age. Here we see what, exactly, is involved and just what the evidence is. We look briefly at some of the theories that were concocted to account for this so-called Ice Age. We also look at the ice caps we currently have for comparison purposes, and we examine their behavior and investigate their origins. We also deal with climate change, and by that I mean radical, extreme, and rapid climate change, involving changes through one or more climatic regimes, for example, tropical to temperate.

There are no plans to publish a volume on present-day so-called climate change, it being, in reality, relatively minor global warming, and not in the same league as the radical climate change to be discussed in this series.

Volume 8

Finally, we bring together everything we have seen in the series and correlate all the evidence into one comprehensive and overarching theory that accounts for all the evidence we’ve seen. Now that we know just what is involved and what we have to explain, the key that unites it all can be revealed, demonstrating that the legend of Atlantis is grounded in fact, uniformitarianism is invalid, and catastrophism is the correct interpretation of that evidence. We see that those early geologists had it right, right at the beginning, even if they couldn’t explain the cause of such catastrophes, their extent, or their severity. Such catastrophes are, as the early geologists said, separated by long periods of quietude as we see today.

Author’s Notes

The foregoing should be considered a preliminary outline of the series and subject to change, most likely by the addition of further volumes due to space...