ABSTRACT
In an anecdote that biologists love to recount, J.B.S. Haldane, the prominent British scientist of the first half of the twentieth century, was once asked what he could divine about the Creator from studying the Creation. His reply: He must have had “an inordinate fondness for beetles.” In the late-twentieth century when G. Evelyn Hutchinson was working on his final volume of the Treatise on Limnology he said if Haldane was to be asked the question at that point he would indicate an inordinate fondness for flies (Diptera). Were he to reply today it would have to be an inordinate fondness for micro-organisms.
