Atlantis existed.

To start things off quickly i have to respect my opponents thoughts with haste then begin. My opponent stated earlier that "When Plato says Atlantis was ï¿½€œafterward sunk by an earthquake,ï¿½€ï¿½ he then makes his own personal assumption on what Plato was talking about and states " he was referring to the volcano-caused tsunamis that destroyed Thera and Crete " which by simple logic is almost impossible to know, not to mention he's changed the castrophe of Atlantis. "On the one hand, Plato was adamant that the island had sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, and equally adamant that the story was absolutely true. And yet, on the other hand, modern scientists have mapped the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, using echo sounders, ï¿½€˜Geosatï¿½€™ radar and multibeam sonar, and found no trace whatsoever of any sunken island." my source states This Plato my opponent speaks so highly over lets put it to fact, he is wrong with the geography, and for my opponent to assume he was talking about some other civilization in some other place is nonsense. If Plato had the location wrong in the first place how can we assume he was talking about some other civilization? "... The date given to the destruction of Atlantis, which is around 9,600BC. For there to have been a race that technologically advanced at that particular time would re-write our known history of our own species, because human civilization as we would think of it has only been around since about 5000BC." Plato also talks of domesticated cattle as well, and the earliest evidence researchers have found of domesticated cattle is 6,000BC. i believe ruled out the Minoan being a most likely inhabitable location of "Atlantis" if not minoan then most damaging to my opponents proposed existence of Atlantis is that there is no room for a landmass in what we know of the geological history of the Atlantic Ocean. my source states and i include once again because my opponent keeps denying the possibility. "In a discussion of Utopian societies, Plato claims that Egyptian priests told Solon about Atlantis. Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave. The purpose of Atlantis is to express a moral message in a discussion of ideal societies, a favorite theme of his. The fact that nobody in Greece for 9,000 years had mentioned a battle between Athens and Atlantis should serve as a clue that Plato was not talking about a real place or battle. Plato's purpose was not to pass on stories, but instead to create stories to teach moral lessons to others. ". "Until a large submerged island is found in the Atlantic ocean with ruins of an ancient seafaring civilization that existed 11,000 years ago I can comfortably assume that Atlantis had never existed." As I stated. perï¿½ï¿½ceiveï¿½€‚ ï¿½€‚[per-seev] Show IPA verb (used with object), perï¿½ï¿½ceived, perï¿½ï¿½ceivï¿½ï¿½ing to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist. if something is not seen and proved so for all means it didn't exist. Thank you. My sources http://www.eridu.co.uk... http://dictionary.reference.com... http://unxplained-factor.com...... http://www.skepdic.com...... http://www.unmuseum.org......