Dinner with 19th Century scientist William Buckland was not to be recommended. But amidst the eccentricity there was real science.
NARRATOR: It is the 1830s and you're invited to dinner at the home of one of Britain's most celebrated scientists. You take the only chair that isn't piled high with books, rocks and fossils. Raucous children are eager to show you their pets. The air is a dusty cocktail of smells. But at last dinner arrives. Is it roast turkey, mutton, ham? No, it's mouse on toast.
As a religious man, William believed that the Great Flood mentioned in Genesis was not just a story, but historical fact, and he spent a long time trying to reconcile the Bible's account with geological evidence. However, after examining the remains of exotic creatures - including hyenas - found in a cave in North Yorkshire, he started to question the Bible's timeline.
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