Critical Reasoning (CR) | ­­Tennyson's line of poetry "nature, red in tooth and claw" is

­­Tennyson's line of poetry "nature, red in tooth and claw" is misconstrued by many evolutionists as a reference to Darwin's theory of evolution. The poem in which the line appears was published in 1850, but Darwin kept his theory closely held until publishing it in 1859. In addition, in view of the context provided by the rest of the poem, the line was clearly meant to refer to the dominant biological theory of the early nineteenth century, which was a creationist theory.

The claim about the publication dates of Tennyson's poem and Darwin's theory plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

(A) It casts doubt on whether the theory of evolution should be attributed to Darwin alone.

(B) It supports the claim that creationist theories of biology were dominant in the early nineteenth century.

(C) It provides reason to believe that Tennyson did not know about Darwin's theory when the poem was published.

(D) It suggests that Tennyson's line provided Darwin
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Statistics : Posted by Bunuel • on 04 Mar 2024, 10:15 • Replies 0 • Views 75

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