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Regression Fallacy: Ascribing a cause where none exists in situations where natural fluctuations exist, while failing to account for natural fluctuations.

Infinite regress is not a sufficient explanatory mechanism. It does not resolve the problem it is invoked to answer but instead postpones it indefinitely. Each belief or claim is said to be justified by another, which itself requires justification, and so on without end. This structure provides no grounding point—it defers resolution rather than offering one.

Beliefs are not equivalent to facts. 

While beliefs may be informed by facts, they remain interpretations, models, or assumptions. A belief cannot ultimately justify another belief without some form of evidence or shared foundation. Otherwise, the structure risks circularity or infinite regress: “A is true because of B, B is true because of C, and so on without closure.” This is not explanation but deferral.

In cosmological contexts, infinite regress fails to answer origin questions. 

“Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we’re going to examine one of the most enduring ideas of modern culture: the belief in space aliens. For over a century, the public has been bombarded with stories of UFOs, crashes, alien pilots, and government cover-ups.

Note: It will be explained lower down the Crowley Association.

But when we peel back the layers of this phenomenon, a very different picture emerges—one not of extraterrestrial visitors, but of human invention, misinterpretation, and manipulation. Let’s begin.”

Part 1: The Mars Craze – Fiction as ‘Fact’

In 1877, during the opposition of Mars, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed what he called canali—meaning ‘channels.’ This was mistranslated into English as ‘canals,’ a much more artificial-sounding term. American astronomer Percival Lowell took this mistranslation and ran with it.

Almost a Decade of Speculation

Almost a decade of speculation began on September 4, 2018, when the YouTube channel Bright Insight presented a provocative but carefully framed idea: not only might the lost city of Atlantis have actually existed, but its true location may have been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years—overlooked simply because scholars and enthusiasts alike had been searching in all the wrong places.

That proposal did not emerge in a vacuum. The debate over the location of Atlantis has long resembled a mirror maze. Plato never finished his account, and what he did record was already several steps removed from the original source. In the centuries since, countless researchers, amateurs, and even national interests have attempted to anchor Atlantis in their own proverbial backyards.

From the Mediterranean to the Americas, most theories suffer from the same fundamental flaw: selective reading driven by confirmation bias.

Yet among…