Atlantis and the biblical deluge

Here is another article from the Daily Telegraph on the Atlantis-Cyprus connection: "The search for Atlantis 'ends at Ayia Napa'." This one has a map of the region, showing what the so-called lost continent might have looked like. If it's at all close to the truth, then my father was born not 30 miles away from metropolitan Atlantis -- a suburbanite, if you will!

There appears to be some similarity between Robert Sarmast's hypothesis and that published several years ago by William Ryan and Walter Pitman concerning the origin of the story of Noah's flood. The assumption of both appears to be that sea levels rose dramatically -- and quickly -- as the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Ryan and Pitman's theory is not without its difficulties, and there are likely to be challenges to Sarmast as well.

All the same, virtually every ancient culture has a flood story of some sort, including the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. It is not unreasonable to assume that an actual occurrence underlies all of these.