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Reaction to Darwin

Reaction to Darwin . Alfred Lord Tennyson. ‘Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation’s final law –

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Reaction to Darwin

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  1. Reaction to Darwin

  2. Alfred Lord Tennyson ‘Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation’s final law – Tho Nature, red in tooth and claw, with ravine shrieked against his creed.’ In Memoriam 1850

  3. Down House, Downe Kent (Bromley)

  4. Westminster Abbey, London

  5. Darwin’s Funeral

  6. Darwin’s Advocates T.H. Huxley ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ Coined term ‘Agnosticism’ Ernst Haeckel ‘Darwin’s Dachshund’ Monist philosophy, religious critic

  7. Paley’s Natural Theology:Evidence of a benevolent creator? “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice. “ Darwin-- from a letter to Asa Gray, 22 May 1860 Ichneumonid wasp

  8. Cuckoo: Nest ParasitismInter-specific competition

  9. Boobies (Galapagos Islands)Intraspecific competition

  10. Intraspecific competition not always bloody struggle Bee orchid

  11. Plant Competition • Competition for sunlight leads to huge resource and energy expenditure in plants

  12. Inter-specific competition:Cordyceps fungi • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8&feature=related

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