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Bezig met laden... Galapagos Regaineddoor James Morrow
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  ChrisRiesbeck | Nov 24, 2023 |   This is fantastically researched and inventive. The actress steals Darwin's treatise, travels the world and shows what evolution can do. Hilarious parody on the Great God debate, but not without seriousness. Viva Mr. Morrow! (  ) CarolineanneE | Mar 28, 2020 |  ) JBD1 | Jul 29, 2017 |  ) bibleblaster | Jan 23, 2016 |
 Even if God does exist, James Morrow probably has nothing to worry about. In His infinite wisdom, He’ll want to keep this hilarious old atheist nearby. His latest novel, “Galápagos Regained,” locates the conflict between faith and science in the mid-19th century, when traditional clerics were running out of cheeks to turn. Though now long-forgotten — because Morrow made it up — in 1848 the Shelley Society of London proposed a competition “whereby they would award an immense cash prize of £10,000 to the first scholar, scientist, or theologian who could prove, or disprove, the existence of God.”
"Galapagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society--£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being--she decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send her off on a wild adventure--a voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andes--bound for the Galapagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Recommended as is everything I've read by Morrow, but not as stunning as The Last Witchfinder. (