leif_erikson
Apr 17, 2010, 04:45 PM
I came across this article about Russian scientists drilling into hell and having actual scientific evidence of it.
The Truth About Hell (http://www.av1611.org/hell.html)
Researchers Record The Screams of the Damned (http://www.amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm)
This looks like it's just adding more evidence to refute the legitimacy of Dante's Inferno being real. In the Divine comedy, Dante seemed to have knowledge of a lot of things that wouldn't be discovered for centuries. Classical scientists such as Galileio actually used the Divine Comedy as a reference for their theories. Dante was right about a spherical earth, he was right about the time zones, the center of gravity, optics, and several other things. (remember this was written in the year 1300 before any of this stuff was discovered)
OK, it seems like the Russians made it into the Inferno before retreating from their drilling. I've tried looking for the mountainous island that was mentioned in the Purgatorio using Google Earth but found nothing. (the book states that it's supposed to be directly beneath Jerusalem) Is the government covering this up by censoring it. The only thing that I saw was water in the area that's directly beneath Jerusalem. (although other islands are nearby)
There is no scientific evidence for the paradisio. In fact, Dante used Ptolemaic cosmology which we know today to be wrong. (or is it?) The question that I'm asking is whether Dante made this all up or was he really a Medieval version of St John the Divine. Was it intended to be an allegorical work of fiction or was he serious about it? What do you think?
I personally think that it's made up but Dante used his own cosmological theories in it. (some of which turned out to be correct)
The Truth About Hell (http://www.av1611.org/hell.html)
Researchers Record The Screams of the Damned (http://www.amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm)
This looks like it's just adding more evidence to refute the legitimacy of Dante's Inferno being real. In the Divine comedy, Dante seemed to have knowledge of a lot of things that wouldn't be discovered for centuries. Classical scientists such as Galileio actually used the Divine Comedy as a reference for their theories. Dante was right about a spherical earth, he was right about the time zones, the center of gravity, optics, and several other things. (remember this was written in the year 1300 before any of this stuff was discovered)
OK, it seems like the Russians made it into the Inferno before retreating from their drilling. I've tried looking for the mountainous island that was mentioned in the Purgatorio using Google Earth but found nothing. (the book states that it's supposed to be directly beneath Jerusalem) Is the government covering this up by censoring it. The only thing that I saw was water in the area that's directly beneath Jerusalem. (although other islands are nearby)
There is no scientific evidence for the paradisio. In fact, Dante used Ptolemaic cosmology which we know today to be wrong. (or is it?) The question that I'm asking is whether Dante made this all up or was he really a Medieval version of St John the Divine. Was it intended to be an allegorical work of fiction or was he serious about it? What do you think?
I personally think that it's made up but Dante used his own cosmological theories in it. (some of which turned out to be correct)