As we said somewhere else, on another day, faith is faith and fact is fact. Just because we might wish to believe something cannot ameliorate the truth, and the truth in this case is that we have NO evidence, just dream-think.

Sure, there are scholars who believe that the basis for the Atlantean myth might have been Santorini, and it's possible...but it's unlikely we'll ever know.

In putting stuff out there,too many people are willing to make quantum leaps based on their beliefs; "I believe Plato was right." "This island sunk." "Edgar Cayce said that there was an Atlantis." "Ergo, everything he said about the Atlantean culture MUST also be true."

There are lots of these kinds of people out there, propagating theory as fact. (This was exactly my problem with the Discovery Channel special about Nefertiti recently.) In addition to the ones named by our Aulus, there's also this Graham Hickock who seems to blend just enough known truth in to be persuasive to those who know a little bit. To my knowledge, he hasn't tackled Atlantis yet, but who knows? He may not have yet made enough money with his exercises in gullibility...

Sorry- that's just another hot button for me. What I really want to say is that speculation should be clearly labeled as such, and fact is always separate from speculation, no matter how hard we wish to, or indeed do, believe.