I wanted to see what yall thought abotu this lil theory of mine that I have had since I was like 10.
Now I'm sure a lot of yall have heard theories about how throughout the world there are monuments that appear to be far older than the civilizations they are attributed to. (Sphinx comes to mind)
And the theories I've heard involve some random group of artisans just happening upon an area and deciding to build something. (kinda dumb)
What if all these unique monuments were created by actual civilizations that were then wiped out completely by a natural disaster?
Now take into account that until fairly recently (last 400 years or so) the great majority of civilization has lived on the coast where it is very vulnerable to being wiped out due to flooding. (and I mean massive flooding)
Then also consider that in the past the earths crust (as a whole) has shifted completely upside down. (poles swapping)
And the belief that old old maps show Antartica free of ice (unconfirmed by me).
Now say the poles did this every few thousand years and essentially restarted human civilization each time since after all ice on the planet melted the only humans left would be very far inland and probably so separated that most would die out.
Could this account for the remnents of ancient civilization left over and modified?
or for the oral legends from the bible? (OH NOES WATER BE COMIN)
Now this is just a very rough theory I've had and even I can see some gaping holes in my own knowledge of it that maybe some of you can help me refine.
1. How often do the poles switch, and has it even happened in the last 10 thousand years even.
2. If all ice on earth melted how much would that raise sea levels? Enough to wipe out all coastal civilization?
3. Let's face facts....the Flying Spaghetti monster would never allow such extinctions to occur as it has to much love for us