Atheist "church" in London.

[Confused Ape]

I'm sorry, I should have known better than the criticize the teachings of the Atheist Church. Carry on.

What does the Antikythera Mechanism have to do with being religious or an atheist? Can you find any article which disproves what Tony Freeth and his research team say? The only thing I ask is that it's by someone who has the qualifications to disprove the findings.

I found this article by Tony Freeth and Alexander Jones. ISAW Papers 4 (February, 2012)The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism

We compare the positions of Mars, as reconstructed by NASA with the Mechanism’s predictions over the middle seven retrogrades of Mars in the 1st Century BC—a period of about 13 years.86 Serious error spikes can be seen, amounting to nearly 38°—more than a zodiac sign—at the retrogrades. The deferent and epicycle theories, on which the mechanisms depended, might be regarded as an adequate first-order approximation but were completely inadequate for accurate prediction at the retrogrades, particularly for Mars. More accuracy would have to wait for more sophisticated theories such as those employed by Ptolemy in the second century AD. Added to these inherent theoretical errors were significant mechanical inaccuracies because of the way that the rotations were transmitted through the gear trains.87

In short, the Antikythera Mechanism was a machine designed to predict celestial phenomena according to the sophisticated astronomical theories current in its day, the the sole witness to a lost history of brilliant engineering, a conception of pure genius, one of the great wonders of the ancient world—but it didn’t really work very well!

Maybe that's why it's the only one found so far. If it didn't work very well it's unlikely that devices like this would have been mass produced.