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So do you think it would have been easy for Mary to find fossils along this coastline back in the early 1800s? OK, yeah, I think it would have been fairly easy because there would have been more fossils about, because there was less collectors. What would have been the difficulty of course is the interpretation and understanding what they were. But while to visitors the fossils were confusing and mysterious, Mary Anning had taught herself to recognise and understand what she was finding. And in the years to follow, the scientific community would rewrite the history of the world based in no small part on the findings of Mary Anning. But all this was really troubling to the Victorian mindset because fossils undermined faith in the Bible and the story of creation. They seemed to show that life had evolved slowly over a really long time. It all pointed to a world that was much, much older than 6, 000 years. |
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shí jiǔ shì jì de mǎ lì zài zhè piàn hǎi tān hěn róng yì fā xiàn huà shí ba. wǒ jué de xiāng duì lái shuō huì róng yì, yīn wèi nà shí hou shōu cáng zhě bǐ xiàn zài shǎo, huà shí yě bǐ xiàn zài duō. ér yán jiū hé liǎo jiě zhèi xiē huà shí fǎn ér bǐ jiào kùn nán. yóu rén men yě xǔ rèn wéi huà shí shén mì nán jiě, mǎ lì ān níng què zì xué chéng cái, xué huì biàn rèn lǐ jiě tā de fā xiàn. zài jiē xià lái de shù nián zhōng, kē xué jiè jiè zhù mǎ lì ān níng de fā xiàn chóng xīn quán shì le shì jiè lì shǐ, dàn duì yú wéi duō lì yà shí dài de rén men zhèi xiē lǐ lùn ràng rén fán nǎo. yīn wèi huà shí yán jiū yǔ shèng jīng chuàng shì lùn xiāng bèi. huà shí gào sù rén men, shēng mìng shì zài zhǎng shí jiān nèi, huǎn màn jìn huà chéng jīn tiān de yàng zi, shì jiè de lì shǐ yào yuǎn yuǎn chāo guò shū shàng de liù qiān nián. |