Posted on 08/06/2007 5:27:45 PM PDT by Renfield
In 1968 a 1600-foot long J-shaped formation of stone blocks was reportedly discovered about one mile off the west coast of North Bimini, Bahamas by a Miami-based biologist, Dr. J. Manson Valentine. The formation was initially thought to resemble a collapsed wall or a road and the unfortunate name Bimini Road was attached to it. Media coverage speculated that the site was associated with Atlantis and sensationalized reports about the formation were widely disseminated. Shortly thereafter, four geologists asserted that the formation was nothing but natural limestone. Most archaeologists and geologists have accepted the four geologists claims without question. However, an inspection of the site shows that the skeptics most important claims about the formation are inaccurate. More importantly, however, a careful evaluation of the prime skeptical geologists original research results indicate that his published findings were changed, misreported, and misrepresented in later reports that presented the same data. By definition, this geologists claims about the Bimini site, based on his later reports, constitute a hoax that has now lasted 25 years. A well-known archaeologist appears to have participated in the hoax as a coauthor. Paradoxically, these coauthors alleged in several articles that a hoax had been perpetrated at Bimini by others. It is demonstrated herein that USGS geologist Eugene Shinn and archaeologist Marshall McKusick published a series of articles wherein they presented false and misleading results summarizing Shinns research findings at Bimini....
(Excerpt) Read more at mysterious-america.net ...
Thank you Blam for the article. It’s diffcult to understand how natural geological events could form 90 degree cuts in the stone but one of the ideas of stone being cut from it makes sense.
One of the other scientist was Graham Norton and he seemed to feel it was man-made. I hope we’ll find out more about it.
Thank you again.....Ping
Graham Norton is not a scientist, he's a TV personality, lol.
Dr Robert Schoch is a geologist/geophysist and he says it's a natural formation. I'm sticking with the Doc on this one.
You’re right. It’s Graham something??? I have a really stinky memory.
I still won’t commit to Schoch’s side yet. The edges just looked too uniform to be a natural formation. I could agree if it’s found they quarried stone there (sometime when it wasn’t underwater).
I hope we hear more about it.
Thank you....I would have been thinking about that all night. I knew he had written a few books but I thought he also had some scientific background.
Thanks again....Ping
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