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inaugural lecture established Parker as an out-and-out evolutionist and he was absolutely convinced of the truth of Darwin‘s claims. He asserted that ―there is now not a single naturalist of any repute, under the age of sixty, who is not also an evolutionist,‖ and continued that ―even among the non-scientific public, opinion has undergone a wonderful and rapid change. An evolutionist is no longer looked upon as a dangerous visionary.‖ Fighting words. Some years earlier during 1876–1877, the Dunedin community had become deeply divided over the issues surrounding evolution and religious beliefs. Historian John Stenhouse has described how the local Young Men‘s Christian Association ―blew apart over evolution,‖ but explains that the contributory factors of sectarianism, politics, personality, and ethnicity were as important in informing the debates as the supposed battle between science and religion. Well before Parker‘s arrival in New Zealand the public debates culminated in a lecture series, organized by the Otago Institute, which were well reported and discussed in the local newspapers. 3 During the main part of his inaugural lecture Parker gave details of his approach to teaching the study of biology, his philosophy, and the methods that he was going to adopt—it was a virtual lesson plan. The whole lecture lasted for almost an hour and a half but the contentious short introduction took only about seven or eight minutes to deliver. It contained emphatic declarations: It would be superfluous, for me to make any attempt to repeat the arguments which go to show that the animals and plants living on the earth at any period of its history are the lineal descendants of those which existed during the preceding period, and that the origin of any living thing by direct creation is, in the first place, entirely unsupported by evidence, and, in the second place, unthinkable. 4

"A dangerous visionary"? The Lectures of the Evolutionist T.J. Parker