Atlantis: Evidence

By Rod Martin, Jr

Subtitle: Something very big happened 9620 BC

Evidence!

Ignoring it won’t make it go away. When we have 3 world-changing events that each occur right when Plato’s Atlantis disappeared, scientists are caught napping, claiming that such evidence doesn’t exist or is impossible.

This short book describes 3 pieces of evidence, each from a different scientific discipline, and each of which coincides with Plato’s date for the destruction of Atlantis. Is this an accidental coincidence, or the cause-and-effect variety?

The jury is still out on this question, but the type of evidence, more than their coinciding date, does more to suggest that all those experts were too hasty to dismiss Plato’s lost island empire.

Though we can’t yet prove Atlantis existed, startling evidence like this does a great deal to keep the door open on the subject.

Imagine a civilization that ended 6,000 years before our own history began. Six millennia of Dark Ages wherein the children of Atlantis dazzled their neighbors with technology that, to the primitive Eurasians, looked like magic. This evidence brings us a big step closer to proving Atlantis actually existed.

Book 3 in the Mission: Atlantis series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tharsis Highlands
• Release date: Jun 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781370021178

Rod Martin, Jr

Rod Martin, Jr. was born in West Texas, United States. He has been a Hollywood artist, a software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, a writer, web designer and a college professor.Rod Martin's interests have ranged from astronomy to ancient history, physics to geology, and graphics arts to motion pictures.He has studied comparative religion, worked as a lay minister and spiritual counselor, and taught ethics in college.While doing graphic arts in Hollywood, he also studied electronic engineering. In 1983, as Carl Martin, he published his first novel, "Touch the Stars: Emergence," co-authored by John Dalmas (Tor Books, NY). He continues to write science fiction under that pen name.Later, switching careers to computers and information technology, Mr. Martin worked for Control Data, Ceridian Payroll, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He also created "Stars in the NeighborHood" 3D astronomy space software.He currently resides in the Philippines with his wife, Juvy. He has taught information technology, mathematics and professional ethics at Benedicto College, in Cebu. He continues to teach online and to write books and blogs.

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Atlantis: Evidence

Something very big happened 9620 BC

Rod Martin, Jr.

Mission: Atlantis series

"There is no nobility in rejecting an idea too quickly, just as there is no accomplishment in accepting a hypothesis with equal speed, before we have sufficient evidence either way."

—Rod Martin, Jr., Mission: Atlantis, Chapter 22

Smashwords Edition

June 2020

Published by Tharsis Highlands Publishing

https://tharsishighlands.wordpress.com/books/

Copyright 2020 Rod Martin, Jr.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form.

Acknowledgements

Cover Credits: Plato, Aristotle, cropped School of Athens: Raffaello Sanzio, 1509 (PD)

Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina, cropped: Luca Galuzzi (CC BY-SA 2.5)

Batad rice terraces, Philippines, cropped: Cid Jacobo (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Tavurvur volcano, New Guinea, cropped: Taro Taylor (CC BY 2.0)

Yorkshire shipwreck, low tide, cropped: TimHill (CC0) Pixabay

The four correlated events (clockwise from upper left):

Plato’s Atlantis (the book Plato holds is Timaeus, the Atlantis dialogue), 9600 BC.

Abrupt climate change, 9620 ±100 BC.

Volcanic eruption, 9620.77 BC.

Significant drop in sea levels worldwide, 9620 ±100 BC.

Cover design by Rod Martin, Jr.

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Other books by Rod Martin, Jr.

Mission: Atlantis series

Mission: Atlantis, Scientific evidence of Plato’s lost island empire

Proof of Atlantis? Evidence of Plato’s Lost Island Empire

Climate Basics series

Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

Deserts & Droughts: How Does Land Ever Get Water?

Shining a Light series

Dirt Ordinary: Shining a Light on Conspiracy

Favorable Incompetence: Shining a Light on 9/11

Thermophobia: Shining a Light on Global Warming

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Contents

Introduction: Evidence and Interpretation

Chapter 1 — Plato’s Lost Island

Chapter 2 — Evidence that Something Very, Very Big Happened 9620 BC

Chapter 3 — The Younger Dryas

Chapter 4 — Mega-Tsunami

Chapter 5 — Greenland Ice Cores

Chapter 6 — The Azores Volcanic Region

Chapter 7 — A Drop in Sea Level

Chapter 8 — Analysis

Chapter 9 — Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

Bibliography and References

About Rod Martin, Jr.

Other Books

Connect

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Introduction: Evidence and Interpretation

Atlantis has long been a controversial subject. Most scientists refrain from discussing it. A few discuss it with a great deal of ridicule. Yet we have strong evidence that something very big happened right when Plato said that the legendary island empire was swallowed by the ocean. The nature of this evidence, more than the coincidence, ties these things to Atlantis.

According to Greek philosopher, Plato (c. 428–348 BC), who remains our chief source for the Atlantis story—a large island in the northeast Atlantic Ocean held an advanced empire that threatened the eastern Mediterranean with conquest. Right after Atlantis lost that war, both the prehistoric Greeks and Atlantean homeland suffered massive earthquakes and flooding. Atlantis was swallowed whole by the sea.

All of this supposedly occurred 9,000 years before about 600 BC, when Greek statesman, Solon, heard the story from an Egyptian priest. So, our rough date is about 9600 BC.

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