What you are talking about is called plate tectonics, and if you look at a map of the world as it was during the Permian period (225 million years ago) you will see that the continents fit nicely together into one big supercontinent called Pangaea.


Plate Tectonics - Pangaea Continent Maps
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there could be a atlantis, and it does prove there was once civilizations which are now buried underwater, long ago water wasnt as high, so there was alot more land showing, some civilizations were built on those banks and when the water levels rose again 'the great flood' it wiped out those city's/civilizations, theres some going from the carribean to japan to even india and some near europe, so maybe atlantis does exist just its ruins havnt been found under water yet.
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trust me marduk, this will run and run.
until sum1 says they found 'antlantis' treasure and whereabouts of the place
then u might be screwed
u neva know, stranger things have happened...  
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Well Marduk, the ancient Sumerians was first believed to be a myth until they finally discovered it was real and obviously you know a lot about them considering thats where your name came from. Yes there are a lot of myths out there, but sometimes you have to read between the lines, there are truths to some of them. So I do believe Atlantis exists, even Edgar Casey, a christian prophet believes that it existed. And here we go again! lol We are good at one thing; disagreeing. 
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you're right we'll probably keep disagreeing for a long time
at least until you actually say something factual
hehehe
   
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Lol! I will bite my tongue on that comment, cos I am a nice american.
Anyways, criticism is good as long as it's not insulting, you walk a very thin line on that.

I remember reading something about people believing the sumerians were a myth.
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you're quite right i walk right on the line
its the best way to make a point when you're talking to someone who's really really wrong in most of their comments
present company excepted
see
easy peasy

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aquatus1 your right about the plate movements, The flood wouldn't have caused them. I don't know what possessed me to say that. What I mean is; After the great flood took place, did it bury Atlantis? And if so, with time and the plates shifting, could it be buried deep within the ocean.
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Okay, well, making the assumption that two things which have no evidence of having ever occurred or existed (and that have much evidence that they didn't occur) did actually happen, my second point would still apply.

Islands, to say nothing of continents, do not simply disappear. They may sink, the get get covered over with water, they may get washed out, but an island (and a continent) is much, much more, than simply what one sees on the surface. To completely delete the existance of the island of Atlantis, you not only have to destroy the island itself, you also have to destroy the entire volcanic basalt sea-mount, all hundreds of feet of it that went from the bottom of the ocean all the way to the top. If Atlantis did indeed exist, despite Plato's claim that it was fictional, and it was placed before the gates of Herakles, despite many who would ignore that in favor of claiming the math was wrong, we should still be able to find a sea-mount somewhere in that vicinity. Even the real Great Flood, the flooding of the Meditarranean Basin, would not have destroyed a seamount like that.
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There is another Theory that says Atlantis could have been located somewhere in the Portuguese Azores Island ???

Atlantis in Azores ?

Lost Atlantis

Possible Capital of Atlantis has described by Platos
CApital

taking that Azores is in the Atalntic Ocean, i would agree with the high possibility ...Atlantis/Atlantic ????
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you forgot to add that it wasn't just an island.
plato said it was bigger than two continents
libya and asia
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You british people are so mouthy.
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how can a civilisation be huge if its all contained on one island
if america disappeared in a day and a night like atlantis was supposed to then we'd still know it was there because of all the americana around the world
just a little suspicious that nothing has ever been found stamped with "made in atlantis"
you think ??
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Marduk is always mouthy and rude. And just to place my two cents in.. i believe it existed. Maybe not to the standards that hight that everyones places on it, but that it existed in some way.
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yo we brits betta stick 2gether here     
anyho, what intrigues me as marduk said, why is there no evidence of 'made in antlantis' artifacts or buildings that arent jus faked up to look so?  
seems strange to me such an advanced civilization wont even bother leave the calling cards that they are around.
after all, wont plato have been given or know of anlantian 'gifts' or objects?    
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Yep im taking geology, and plate tectonics deffinitly were involved in the movement of the Earth. I do believe at tone time Atlantis was no doubt peiced together perfectly with the rest of the world, then it driffted apart, and then it sunk! we all need to jump in the water and swim around lol...
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If you're studying plate tectonics you'll soon realise that's a geological impossibility

If Atlantis existed in may have been a coastal settlement, or small, low, island, flooded by rising sea levels after the Last Glacial Maximum. But any other idea is pure geological fantasy.

If you want to put a big landmass in the Atlantic you need first to completely re-write geophysics
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Has anyone read Clive Cussler's "Atlantis Found"?  Its great fiction but the foreword about the 7120BC Comet was fantastic nonfiction.  It's a shame that he didn't provide a bibliography for that part. 
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why not, they've already started rewriting history to fit it in.
why do some people go nuts everytime someone mentions the "A" word.
before you know it andy someones gonna mention hapgood as if he's some kind of holy grail and you know where we go from there,
bloody elephants and einstein again
is it just me or is it getting really samey in here
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NO NO NO NO NO      
Plato did not say his story was fictional.  He did say that he remembered it exactly as his father told it to him and was now passing it on as accurately as possible to preserve the memory of Atlantis and also to illustrate what happpens to a great nation when it become emeshed in its own greedy ambitions.   
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probs is, u can say antlantis isnt real to ur blue in the face, but some ppl will keep believing it regardless none the less.....  
just fact of life.
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everything you have ever heard written on the subject sprang from that.
theres no pottery
no atlantean language or writings
no atlantean art
no evidence of atlantean navigation
etc
etc

" Marduk is always mouthy and rude"
I see no evidence of that
     
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when ppl cum up with the same bullcrap stuff theories and such, wont u?  
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lol...probably ...
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Not unless you want me cranky
 
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opinion. Opinion. OPINION!!

People are going to think what they want to think.

ALWAYS.

I lean in no direction on this. I think it could be true. Just maybe not to the extent that t was brought forth. But anyhow. Thats me. MY OPINION!
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I agree, but it is fun to look at different theories and such. So I don't really care what Marduk has to say, I respect his opinion, as well as all others. Even though he probably doesn't respect mine.
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