Update: for those who aren't familiar with creationist propaganda, some
of them like to blame
all of the evils of the world upon Darwin. These include racism,
fascism, and communism/Stalinism. All of those comparisons are silly,
but the last one seems really odd because communism was diametrically
opposed to "social darwinism", which had nothing to do with Darwin
either. The Russians always had problems with the role of intra-species
conflict that was central to Darwin's theory, derived from Malthus'
ideas; many saw it as English
ideological imposition on science. The Soviet Union even went as
far as to ban Mendelian genetics (and with it, neo-Darwinian theory) in
favor of a more Lamarkian version of genetics and evolution. I've heard
that this was driven by their ideological distaste for
Update: for those who aren't familiar with creationist propaganda, some
of them like to blame
all of the evils of the world upon Darwin. These include racism,
fascism, and communism/Stalinism. All of those comparisons are silly,
but the last one seems really odd because communism was diametrically
opposed to "social darwinism", which had nothing to do with Darwin
either. The Russians always had problems with the role of intra-species
conflict that was central to Darwin's theory, derived from Malthus'
ideas; many saw it as English
ideological imposition on science. The Soviet Union even went as