Atlantis Was a Mid-Atlantic Island Destroyed by a Comet.

Randall lays out a sequence that connects two of the most significant impact events in Earth history. His position on Atlantis is direct - it was a real Mid-Atlantic island, destroyed when a fragmenting comet struck the Atlantic Ocean. The atmospheric entry of that object produced the spallation byproducts that created the Carolina Bays across the eastern seaboard of North America, and the oceanic impact obliterated the island civilisation Plato described.

The broader significance of that claim becomes clear when set against what happened in geology almost simultaneously. Three independent scientific teams reached the same conclusion about the K-T boundary - the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was caused by an extraterrestrial impact. That finding shattered the strict gradualism that had dominated geological thinking for over a century. For the first time, mainstream science had to accept that catastrophic cosmic events could reshape the planet in an instant. Randall's argument is that the same framework, now uncontroversial when applied to the dinosaurs, needs to be applied with equal seriousness to the much more recent and much more consequential event at the Younger Dryas boundary - the one that ended Atlantis and reset the trajectory of human civilisation.

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