I'm Christian, but when I see I site called christiananswers.com, my pseudoscience alarm goes to the Caution level. Lines like this: It was only after Clapp formulated this theory that Sodom and Gomorrah were found. make it sound like they developed a plausible story and then searched for evidence to support it, instead of examining the evidence and letting it logically lead to a conclusion.

I'm not saying this is b.s., but I would be more inclined to believe it if it were, say, on Reuters.

Actually, I read a similar explanation a couple of years ago, in a book called Ancient Mysteries, by Peter James and Nick Thorpe, who goes into a lot more scientific theoretical detail. As I remember it (and it's sitting right beside me now, but I don't think I'm going to re-read the article in it right now), they present pretty much the same thing as a plausible theory. A good read, and without any apparent biases.

(Dang! I can't figure out how to make the link thing work, but it's easily found on Amazon.)

Here's another go:

Um, this?