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NEWS October 2024
OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
O’Donoghue, Joseph
Joseph O’Donoghue is an Irish author who graduated from University College Cork with a BSc in geology. After a number of years he found that the work of a geologist had lost its appeal. 
However, his deep-rooted interest in the mysteries and controversies associated with geology drove him to a private investigation of the subject.
A review of O’Donoghue’s work commented “His research reinforced his impression that the geological establishment had bought too far into one theory of natural forces, to the extent that they had to close their eyes to any facts that contradicted it. As a result, they had made themselves blind to obvious and observable phenomena that their theory could not explain.
The theory in question is uniformitarianism, which is the idea that the forces at work in the natural world (like erosion) haven’t changed over time, and so everything we observe must have an explanation that is still at work. It also means that changes happen very slowly and gradually. On the surface, this seems logical, but problems arise because it simply cannot explain everything. There are some events we know happened, like the Ice Age, that are not explainable by this theory, or that can only have occurred by massive catastrophes.” (a)
O’Donoghue has commenced publishing an intended eight books with the series title of The Legend of Atlantis and the Science of Geology. The first two volumes, Atlantis and Catastrophe: Myth or Reality? [2100] and The Geology of Greece: Uniformity or Catastrophe? [2101] are now available.
In the first pages of Volume One he declared his support for the idea of Atlantis as an Atlantic continent. I totally disagree with that idea and my reasons can be read using the links here.
I expect that I shall be returning to Mr.O’Donoghue frequently, as I work my way through the first two volumes.