There has been a lot of exploration and research for Atlantis since I first heard Dr. Scott teaching about it.  He taught about Edgar Cayce’s prophecy about it.  He taught about the one that found the crystal in the metal hands in the pyramid in the Bermuda Triangle.  He taught about all of those mentioned in the first part of these posts about Atlantis.  What he didn’t teach about was the exploration by such organizations as NOAA, AMRA, A. R. E., The Morien Institute, and Advanced Digital Communications (ADC).  Probably because most of these institutions issued their reports after he taught on it.  So now, if you’re ready to go swimming, break out the gear.  I looked up information on more than twelve drops in the lake of Internet search engines.  Pick almost anyone and key in the words, evidence of Atlantis underwater.   They all had the mostly the same links, just not all in the same order.        One last thought concerning the Byzantine friar.  I can possibly understand where he’s coming from.  If you remember in the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden (heart of GOD), to the east.  .  So, wherever they were, the garden was to the west of them.  When Cain and Able went to offer their offerings, it would make sense that they went to that East Gate, facing west toward the Heard of GOD.  After the flood, Eden was never referred to again.  When the ark landed on the top of that mountain, according to most of the translations they went down the mountain to the west.  Moving back towards GOD.  When GOD gave the instructions to Moses concerning how to build the Tabernacle in the wilderness.  It was erected in a manor in which they would enter from the east, and the most Holy place was at the west end where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.  If I’m not mistaken, if you get a look at the orientation of the Temple in Jerusalem, you’ll find it lined up in the same direction.      Now to the part that relates to Atlantis.  If Atlantis was destroyed in that flood, it would explain why there was no more mention of the Garden, why there are no more giants like those referred to in Genesis, and, as at least one of the theories that I found, suggested that Jericho was settled by survivors from Atlantis.  It would possibly explain why GOD chose it as the First Fruit of the Promised Land conquered by the Israelites.  And why HE wanted it utterly destroyed and told Joshua to tell the people not to take any spoils what so ever from the city.  If, indeed, they were remnants of the people that angered HIM so greatly.  Just a thought, but it would clear up a few questions about Genesis.