Great articles--though don't agree with everything in them, and vehemently disagree with the parts about religion.
If Atlantis existed (itself debatable) and was located in the Atlantic (such as the Azores or the island that was just out of the Straits of Gibraltar), either it wasn't as powerful as Plato's account suggested (a teensy-weensy island could support a great culture, much less a civlization--this applies to Thera/Santorini, and even Minoan Crete), or Plato was off about both the power and the size: Crete is much smaller than the Maghreb and Asia Minor.
P.S. A lot of the commenters didn't take that size issue into consideration with their criticism, nor the suggestion of a Hellenized version for Plato, putting it in familiar Mediterranean surroundings. Plus, could the Pillars have been more than just two, and the Ocean being the Pacific (the largest ocean by far, especially if that NON-OCEAN dubbed the "Southern Ocean" is removed), and thus just a grouping of islands (i.e. similar to pillars/columns in the interior of a building)?
Plausible...
The longer I live in the South Pacific, the more I come to realize that there is a WHOLE LOT of history that has never been recorded, ever.
And that this world is ALOT older and wickeder than most folk imagine. (with the possible exception of Robert E Howard).
What is now Indonesia being Atlantis? Sure, maybe, why not?
Our modern civilization brings along with it many, many biases. But nobody has successfully — to my satisfaction — explained what happened in the Pacific, while the rest of our Civilization was off fighting Trojan Wars or building Noah’s Ark (which must have had outboard motors and lots of petrol, to drop off the kangaroos in Australia and the kiwis and tuataras in New Zealand, and still make it back in time to Mt Ararat for the floods to settle down...)
The Pacific is a very old, very antient place, full of evil that has been practised for many millenia. Yet we know next-to-nothing about its History.
Like I said: Atlantis in Indonesia? Plausible. I would not be one bit surprised.
*DieHard*
I still think Southeast Asia and perhaps parts of India as Atlantis. It sure fits what Plato described it as.