Atlantis existed.

I begin my debate with stating much respect to Nur-Ab-Sal but this is a topic he utmost is not correct about or have enough evidence to prove that my opponent himself is. After reading, i still am clueless upon the evidence of showing that the tales of Atlantis were handed down through his generation before his age. As I stated and still left unanswered. Also my opponent states "There is simply no reason to believe Plato was speaking allegorically, and every reason to believe he was speaking historically." I can easily negate the idea with a statement from my source. " 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. Nevertheless, Plato is often cited as the primary source for the reality of a place on earth called Atlantis." Plato's purpose was not to pass on stories, but instead to create stories to teach moral lessons to others. "...What can we expect next from these lost scholars? A search for the grave of Cecrops, the serpent-tailed first king of Athens? The discovery of the true trident of Poseidon?" as the stories were told. And to prove it I have further evidence below. according to the writings of the historian Strabo, Plato's student Aristotle remarked that Atlantis was simply created by Plato to illustrate a point. A writing translated from Plato's writings states that the location from Egypt to so called Atlantis and describes the distance as being 250 miles across which is completely false. If the fall of the Minoans is really the story of Atlantis then how did he get the location wrong? "... 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. "The architecture that Plato speaks of is far more advanced than what researchers believe would have been in use at that time, as more sophisticated buildings didn't start to show up until around 5,000BC at the very earliest. In fact there is almost no archaeological evidence that could support the claim that a society such as that described by Plato would have existed at the time stated." Plato's own writings contradict themselves. simply stating if the time and location are wrong it is highly probable Plato was not citing Atlantis historically "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. Also when I mentioned Athens I needed to include that if Atlantis had ever existed it might have been Athens also I didn't propose it to be a main idea and shouldn't be counted against me, thank you. http://unxplained-factor.com... http://www.skepdic.com... http://www.unmuseum.org...