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 – Tho Nature, red in tooth and claw, with ravine shrieked against his creed.’ In Memoriam 1850

Down House, Downe Kent (Bromley)

Westminster Abbey, London

Darwin’s Funeral

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

Paley’s Natural Theology: Evidence of a benevolent creator? Ichneumonid wasp “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

Cuckoo: Nest Parasitism Inter-specific competition

Boobies (Galapagos Islands) Intraspecific competition

Intraspecific competition not always bloody struggle Bee orchid

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

Inter-specific competition: Cordyceps fungi L8&feature=related L8&feature=related