2006-07-02 23:30:24 · 24 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Logically, you cannot prove a negative. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
However, it can be said that no evidence of such a place has ever been found in the area(s) assigned to Atlantis, and that it is a geological impossibility that there was ever a continent in the ocean outside of the Pillars of Hercules.
2006-07-02 23:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by P. M 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You can't prove a negative. But there is a volcanic island in the Mediterranian which is a supervolcano (like they call Yellowstone). Its eruption would be 100 times the size of the one that wiped out Pompei. Some scientists are now finding evidence that it blew up just before the Minoan culture showed up on Crete. They've also found a lot of pottery and other items underwater at that island that look like they're Minoan, but no bodies, as if the people knew the eruption was coming, so they took off in a hurry. They were believed to be an extremely peaceful people, based on their artwork, and what they've found is very advanced. This would have been before the legend was written down (remember, it was written hundreds of years after it supposedly took place), so it may have been blown (pardon the pun) way out of proportion by that time.
2006-07-03 14:00:43 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Atlantis was a myth, then it does not exist.
If Atlantis was real then it sank and was destroyed.
so It no longer exists.
Either way Atlantis does not exist. Is that proof enough?
Was there an Atlantis once upon a time Long ago?
well that is not what you asked. ;)
2006-07-03 11:59:16 · answer #3 · answered by Syberian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes 100% of the earths surface is mapped. there r no places on the face of the earth that arent known to us and there is no atlantis therefor atlantis doesnt exist. however i am not saying i can prove whether or not atlantis ever existed just that it doesnt exist now.
2006-07-03 06:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody believes in God, duh!
Edit: Oh! Atlantis! I read that quickly and thought it said "Atheists".
Still the same answer.
2006-07-03 10:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,because of the rocks in Malta proves there was a world before us.
2006-07-03 06:48:15 · answer #6 · answered by shaff n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a believer cannot prove non-existence. for in trying to disprove the myth or belief, they end up proving it true rather than false.
2006-07-05 01:10:09 · answer #7 · answered by Sammi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. I can't prove that it does exist either though.
2006-07-03 06:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot more evidence against it existing than there is for it existing.
2006-07-03 07:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The burden of proof is on you to prove that it does
2006-07-03 11:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by GIDDYUP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋