Plato's Date for the Sinking of Atlantis Matches a Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Event Exactly.

At 11,600 years ago there was a catastrophic sea level rise event - Meltwater pulse 1B - documented in the marine geological record. Plato's account of the demise of Atlantis, transmitted through a chain of sources from Solon through Critias the Elder to Critias the Younger and finally to Socrates and Plato himself, places the sinking of Atlantis at the same moment. The mechanism Plato describes is precise - earthquake and rapid sea level rise. The geological record at that precise date shows exactly that.

Randall is not prepared to dismiss that convergence as coincidence - and he states that position directly. A skeptic would call it coincidence. Randall finds that response insufficient when the date, the mechanism, and the geographical framework all align simultaneously. Plato was not describing a metaphor or a moral fable. He was transmitting a chronology received from Egyptian sources that places the subsidence of a mid-Atlantic landmass at precisely the moment the marine geology shows a catastrophic pulse of meltwater entering the world's oceans. The two accounts - one preserved in Greek philosophical dialogue, the other recorded in the sedimentary record of the ocean floor - are describing the same event from opposite ends of the evidence.

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