Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion - Hardcoverby Michael Taylor (Author) 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