Undersea Monolith Reveals Genius Engineering

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 8-17-2015 | Brian Thomas

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Undersea Monolith Reveals Genius Engineering

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

Of all the scientific disciplines, underwater archaeology may be one of the most fascinating. These researchers examine artifacts our ancestors left behind before global sea level rose and covered them. A newly discovered monolith—a gigantic rock placed in what is today the Mediterranean Sea—confronts a few evolution-based errors about human origins.

Divers visited the monolith in 2014, capturing high resolution sonar images and underwater photographs. It lies on the undersea Adventure Plateau, found south of Sicily and north of Tunisia, Africa. Archaeologists from Italy and Israel described the results in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.1

Today, the artifact lies about 140 feet below sea level, so it appears it was constructed back when sea level was at least 150 feet lower than today's level. Glacial meltwater near the end of the Ice Age caused a series of local "megafloods" around the globe, like the ancient Missoula Flood in America's Northwest. These explain the addition of vast amounts of water to the world's oceans.2

[ctdonath2]

Don’t confuse ice sheets covering land mass with ice “shelves” covering ocean. The latter melting do not change sea levels, as they’re already floating in water.

[bgill]

Proof positive globull warming was caused by Ice Age dwellers.

[Noumenon]

Cue the glue sniffing aliens guy...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

In before 2001 references.

[SunkenCiv]

Uh, no. Thanks Red Badger.

[SunkenCiv]

> Water is a zero sum game. If it’s covering land masses hundreds of feet thick over hundreds or thousands of miles, the sea levels must be lower while that’s going on. After those ice sheets melt, sea levels must rise.

And the Earth isn’t a balloon, so if part of the surface used to be lower, other parts had to be higher.

[G Larry]

These civilizations built on this side of your beloved ice age.

[Organic Panic]

Why is anything old and big considered genius engineering feats? People even concoct bizaar alien stories to explain these things.

There is nothing all that difficult, engineering wise, about building a pyramid. There is not some magical formula unknown to the ancients. It is simple geometry. Simple geometry and an endless supply of expendable labor.

[willyd]

Depends on if the ice masses are above land or sea as the sea level will actually lower if the ice that melts is only in the ocean. Also, some of the water mass is taken up by plants and new forestation as the temperature increases above 0 degrees.