Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

by Michael Taylor

Book Overview

When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years--as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324093927
• ISBN13: 9781324093923
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 496 Pages