--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > "Yes, I think John Esq. is correct - human civilization may be much older" > > Maybe but how come they left no archaeological remains for us to date and ponder over? How come we have evidence of a move to simple agriculture from our previous hunter/gatherer lifestyle and then, after thousands of years, a sudden growth of larger towns, then cities. > > Why does the evidence point to a different explanation to the one some people seem so keen to believe in, don't we trust actual evidence any more?
I think that the tendency to believe in things like Atlantis and Lemuria and the like can all be attributed to self-importance on the part of the people believing in these things. They heard something or read something that makes them feel "special" and self-important because *they* "know" these things, and the people they look down on as "not as special" don't.
