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             o of biology and apply it to human societies as well—and for human beings to be in a a
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             s state of war and conflict as wild animals supposedly do in nature.
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             workers and capitalists, and that soon  survival”, in other words, through dia-
             the workers would rise up and organize  lectical conflict. In addition, he rejected
             out a communist revolution. Both dyed-  religious beliefs by denying creation. In
             in-the-wool atheists, Marx and Engels  those terms, Darwinism provided an in-
             regarded the elimination of religion as  tellectual support for the assertions of
             essential for communism to succeed.  communism.
             However, the actions and struggle to be  Hostility towards religion formed the
             waged had to be placed on a legitimate  basis of the alliance between Darwinism
             philosophical footing.             and communism. The most important
                The theory of evolution, proposed by  reason for the communists’ devotion to
             Darwin in his book the Origin of Speci-  Darwinism was the support it gave to at-
             es, became the scientific guise their  heism. In his book Soviet Marxism and
             ideology had been waiting for. Darwin  Natural History, David Jorafsky descri-
             claimed that living things emerged and  bes this relationship:
             developed as the result of a “struggle for  In spite of its scientific deficiencies, evo-
           Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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