The Flood- one explanation

Salt in Lake Titicaca is carried in trace amounts by runoff. It is normal for large lakes with no outlets to have some salt in them, as well as many other dissolved minerals. You are aware of a place called the Dead Sea, correct? How about the Salt Lake in Utah?

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Mere assertion.

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The lake would have dried up by now if it were millions of years old.

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Do the docks face the lake? How do you know the lake predates the city?

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Didn't you take a look when you were there? Or are you just asking rhetorically? Because hardly anyone seems to doubt that the docks were used for ships on Titicaca in the last millenium or two. It's such an obvious conclusion that a reasonable doubt is very difficult to raise.As far as the recession of the lake, I'd think it would be fairly easy to compare the 100-foot drop and the current rate of recession to estimates of the city's age. However, even if it's dropping only an inch per year right now, I'd bet that one good drought year could knock it down a couple of feet. (does that make me a catastrophist? ) Sadly, my googling led me only to crappy sensationalist sites like the one you quoted... they may be right but they don't quote any good data, only authorities and vague references to alternative dating methods. I've been interested in Tihuanaco for a long time for my own reasons and know a bit about it, but I'll be d@mned if I can find good facts online.

Heehee! I thought that said "hall of meat" when I first looked.Anyway... many thanks for the link. Good information about the city. I found the pages on other subjects very helpful too. I used to get really caught up in some of that crap before I learned to be a little more critical. I was glad to see this one, on the topic of high-interest (and fact-free) writing:Page not found....and a discussion of pie. Mmmm, pie... errr, pi, WRT "squaring the circle" in the Great Pyramid.Page not found....and so on. Thanks again.

Their evidence is the astronomically oriented rocks. You can tell they are astronomically oriented because they've been broken, scattered, and dragged away for centuries and yet some of them still point to stars if you sit in the right place and look at them. But they don't point exactly to the stars, so one calculates from precession that the city was built 12k years ago.I'm not even kidding, that was the best argument I saw in all the pages I went through.