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The general response was " as the Westminster Review put it, that Gosse's theory was ' too monstrous for belief.

'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind.

" Journalists later sniggered that God had apparently hidden fossils in the rocks to tempt geologists to infidelity.