As it's nearly impossible to approach any topic with an open mind, for a long time my research method has been to approach a hypothesis with a desire to believe it from the very first, to run with the idea, to adopt it, research it and argue for it, then see how the idea holds up over time. If the idea proves truly insupportable on current evidence, e.g. the world is flat, then it dies a natural death and isn't mentioned again. But if it really does have something about it, then it never dies a death but continues to challenge.
Here are four hypotheses:
1] Tony Blair's government and the EU are destroying Britain as we know it;
2] Jesus Christ has the capacity to save you from hell;
3] Climate change is happening;
4] Atlantis certainly existed as a civilization.
Reactions like "well, you got one out of four right" or "it's been scientifically disproved" or "that's simply rubbish" or "N1 and N2 are two completely separate issues" - these, I'm afraid, cut no ice.
They're not proof, they're only opinion.
A considerable number of people have put all four forward as valid hypotheses and all have documentation to support them. You can say: "Prove them," and I say: "Disprove them."
No takers.
No one has definitively disproved any of these four. Therefore, for now, the weight of truth is on their side. I'm not being deliberately belligerent or provocative here but I am searching for the truth. Let's go with Atlantis, for example:
In support
Dr. Heinrich Schliemann ran some tests on some Central American vases and some from Troy and concluded that they had been made from the same peculiar clay, not existing in either place.
Dr. Paul Schliemann [the grandson] was advised to break a Trojan clay 'owl' vase by his grandfather and he found a square of metal inside, too big for the neck of the vase, engraved in ancient Phoenician.
In 1958, Dr. William Bell took photos on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean of a six-foot spire. There were light emanations from the bottom of the shaft.
In 1968, pilot Capt. Robert Brush and co-pilot Trigg Adams, spotted a rectangular feature in the shallow waters off Andros. Avec la découverte, en 1968, de ce qui sembla être une gigantesque route formée de rochers polygonaux dans des eaux peu profondes au large de l'île de Bimini, beaucoup pensèrent être très proches de la découverte imminente de l'Atlantide.
On September 2nd, 1968, M. Valentine dived and discovered "The Bimini Road". The 'road' is found about 800 metres out from Paradise Point, Bimini North Island, in five metres of water, and its length is of 638 metres, in a J shape. Fallen monoliths and a three-metre ring of large stones were also discovered.
In 1969, Robert Fero and Michael Grumley found pillars on the Atlantic floor. The rock from which parts of them were made was not found in that part of the world.
In 1970, Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner and lecturer from Mesa (Arizona), was diving in the Berry Islands, Bahamas with five others. They found a pyramid illumined inside, with rooms. He said that in the centre of the room there was a slab and on the pyramid slab was a crystal held by two hands. The hands seemed to be made of copper. A metallic rod was hanging down from the ceiling and its end was a multi-faceted red gem, pointing to the crystal.
He removed the crystal and still has it and shows it to lecture audiences. The crystal seems to have been tested by the University of Florida and the result was that the crystal amplifies energy that passed through it.
In 1974, Dr. David Zink visited and reported: "The ocean floor is essentially level, not sloping."
In 1978, Ari Marshall photographed a 650-foot pyramid at about 1500 feet underwater, off Cay Sal.
In 1982, Herbert Sawinski, explorer, diver, and chairman of the Museum of Science and Archeology in Fort Lauderdale, found and photographed stone pavements at a depth of 25 feet, in the North of Cuba. The main wall continued for a quarter of a mile out to sea, then it disappeared into 2500 feet of water.
In contradiction
Science gives this explanation: the formation is natural, a result of the water being supersaturated with calcium carbonate. A continual deposition of calcium carbonate sediment is responsible for the cementation process, which had actually built the whole Bahama Banks. This calcium concentration helps with the rapid formation of limestone beach rock.
Sea-level has been constantly rising since 15,000 B.C., and for 600-700 years it has witnessed a continuous fluctuation, that accounts for the parallel, linear 'road'. The different levels of water, the sun exposure, and the calcium carbonate are the true 'builders' of the 'road'.
Samples were taken from the core of the rocks, in a way to show the orientation of each block. [This] means that the rocks were once part of a"single ribbon of beach rock" (Eugene A. Shinn, geologist).
Decision
Today I asked a client to look at Photos 1 and 2 and asked her, before any explanations were given: "Were these underwater rock formations made by humans or by the natural action of the earth and sea?" She said "human" to both. Doesn't prove much but see what you think.
My own opinion, as of now, is that no one's yet disproved it but it looks mighty likely to be true.
[If you were to argue against the Bimini Road, this is a good place to start - the tesselated pavements.]
