Impossible Monsters : Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
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Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of
the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins
of the world.'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject'
PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND'The
most talented young historian around ... A triumph' SATHNAM
SANGHERAIn 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some
strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They
belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred
feet of rock.Over the next two decades, as several more of these
'impossible monsters' emerged from the soil, the leading scientists
of the day were forced to confront a profoundly disturbing
possibility: the Bible, as a historical account of the Earth's
origins, was wildly wrong.This is the dramatic story of the crisis
that engulfed science and religion when we discovered the
dinosaurs. It takes us into the lives and minds of the
extraordinary men and women who made these heretical discoveries,
those who resisted them, as well as the pioneering thinkers, Darwin
most famous among them, who took great risks to construct a new
account of the earth's and mankind's origins.Impossible Monsters is
the riveting story of a group of people who not only thought
impossible things but showed them to be true. In the process they
overturned the literal reading of the Bible, liberated science from
the authority of religion and ushered in the secular age.'Truly
marvellous ...an intellectual thriller' RICHARD HOLMES'A stunning
work ... of surprises and revelations' STEVE BRUSATTE
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Bodley Head ,
Michael Taylor
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Bodley Head,
Michael Taylor
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