I held my hands up, "Whoa Matt! Everything you've said up to now is at least somewhat believable given a little faith, but do you seriously intend to try to convince me that this device is the key to getting to other worlds?" I asked skeptically.
"Not at all." Matt replied before tapping his foot on the ground symbolically.
I glanced down and then it clicked in my thinking. He couldn't be serious?
"Oh but I am. Jules Vern got quite a few things right after all. Something else that you should consider is that there is a lot of Biblical evidence to suggest that there is a body of water at the Earth's core or near it anyway. Many times it is mentioned of the water beneath the Earth being separate from the water bodies above. In one of the verses in Psalms it actually mentions that God laid the foundations of the land on water and then of course there's the Genesis flood where the fountains of the deep are broken up and extra water came from somewhere below."
I stared at Matt in shock. I had never imagined anything like this even being remotely possible.
"So you think that the actual landmass of the island that Atlantis was on could've sunk down to this inner body of water at the Earth's core?"
"I think it's a plausible theory to explain why we don't find any evidence today of the landmass existing where Atlantis was supposed to have. We know from fables that Atlantis had a volcano and that they supposedly tapped into the thermal energy to run some of their advanced technology. To have had a volcano Atlantis would've had to of been located on a hotspot. Today we have the Atlantic tectonic coastal ridge, which is the site of where Atlantis was reported to have been. It's possible that the oceanic plates opened up briefly and Atlantis's island continent sank through into the void below. The same could've happened to Lemuria in the Pacific and to other landmasses. One thing is for sure, we have a Captain Rogers who turns up with the Mary Belle twenty years after the voyage of the treasure fleet. Where was he and the ship for over twenty years and why would he leave a note that has a symbolic tie in with Atlantis? It's clear that this device is not of Southern Confederate manufacture, but much older. The scrollwork here on the petals is reminiscent of the earliest Babylonian writings and design patterning. No, I'd say you have a very believable working hypothesis and it would seem that you even have the key to unlock the truth whether the mystery of Atlantis is fact or fiction once and for all. In either case count me in for the expedition. When do we start?" Matt finished on a resolute note.