{"id":15247,"date":"2011-09-03T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:35:11","slug":"15247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/15247\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitching, J. Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Francis_Hitching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27883\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Francis_Hitching.jpg\" alt=\"Francis_Hitching\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>John Francis Hitching (1933- )<\/strong> is a British writer with an interest in archaeology, non-Darwinian evolution as well as the paranormal. His best-known work on evolution is his controversial, <em>The Neck of the Giraffe<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">0767<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was editor of <em>The World Atlas of Mysteries<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">0307<\/a>]<\/sup> in which he gives an overview of Atlantis theories, while in his better-known work, <em>Earth Magic<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">0578<\/a>.166]<\/sup> he reveals his preference for Crete as the source of the Atlantis story &#8211;<em>&#8220;Plato&#8217;s description of Atlantis, on which all Atlantean theories are based, can be readily assigned to the Mediterranean island of Crete, wrecked by an earthquake that happened on the near-by island of Thera.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hitching\u2019s scientific credentials and credibility have been seriously questioned<sup>(a)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241228123026\/http:\/\/www.talkorigins.org\/faqs\/hitching.html\">Francis Hitching: Commonly Quoted by Creationists (archive.org<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241228123026\/http:\/\/www.talkorigins.org\/faqs\/hitching.html\">)<\/a><\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Francis Hitching (1933- ) is a British writer with an interest in archaeology, non-Darwinian evolution as well as the paranormal. His best-known work on evolution is his controversial, The Neck of the Giraffe[0767]. &nbsp; He was editor of The World Atlas of Mysteries[0307] in which he gives an overview of Atlantis theories, while in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,63,3435,1671,1929],"class_list":["post-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-crete","tag-darwin","tag-evolution","tag-francis-hitching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66805,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions\/66805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}