{"id":37511,"date":"2017-08-31T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=37511"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:55:40","slug":"christopher-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/christopher-kevin\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher, Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Christopher<\/strong> is a confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sceptics\/\">sceptic<\/a>, whose paper, <em>Atlantis: No way, No How, No Where <\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup>, is widely available on the internet. It is a lightweight offering, frequently quoting two of the most extreme location theories, such as, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bolivia\/\">Bolivia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/antarctica\/\">Antarctica<\/a>, as justification for his view that the Atlantis story is &#8216;entirely fictional&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher also questions the chain of transmission of the story, describing it as &#8216;tenuous&#8217;. But as I have pointed out elsewhere, if Plato had simply concocted the Atlantis tale, it is reasonable to expect that he would also have invented a more straightforward provenance. Consequently, any perceived difficulties in this regard actually enhance the credibility of the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/carl-martin-amended\/\">Rod Martin<\/a> wrote a short paper grading the arguments of some of the better-known Atlantis sceptics, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/michael-shermer-new\/\">Michael Shermer <\/a>and Kevin Christopher<sup>(b) <\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csicop.org\/sb\/show\/atlantis_no_way_no_how_no_where\">https:\/\/www.csicop.org\/sb\/show\/atlantis_no_way_no_how_no_where<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110911222557\/http:\/www.ancientsuns.com\/fwd\/mia\/atlantis-articles\/atlantis-csicop.php\">Mission: Atlantis, by Rod Martin, Jr. \u2014 Grading the Skeptics \u2014 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Christopher is a confirmed sceptic, whose paper, Atlantis: No way, No How, No Where (a) , is widely available on the internet. It is a lightweight offering, frequently quoting two of the most extreme location theories, such as, Bolivia and Antarctica, as justification for his view that the Atlantis story is &#8216;entirely fictional&#8217;. Christopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[91,44,5417,3960,85],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antarctica","tag-bolivia","tag-kevin-christopher","tag-michael-shermer","tag-sceptic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66018,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions\/66018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}