In 1861, upon reading the Origin of Species, he exclaimed: “Darwin’s book is very important and serves me as a natural scientific basis for the class struggle in history.”

Who is he? Karl Marx (author of the Communist Manifesto and father of communism).

Nearly 2 thousand years before Origin of Species went into print, this man taught ideas that bear a striking resemblance to the assumptions underlying evolutionary principles. He taught the following:

- There is no need to believe in God (a theory of human existence devoid of deity)
- Every man fared in this life according to the natural “management of the creature” (a'la natural selection)
- Every man “conquered according to his strength” (a'la survival of the fittest)
- “Whatsoever a man did was no crime” (moral relativism)
- “When a man was dead, that was the end thereof” (atheism)

Who was this man? Korihor (ancient American atheist extraordinaire and deceiver of many). Sorry I couldn’t find his picture.

 

In 1891 in Gori, Georgia, a 13-year-old choirboy with dreams of becoming a priest, Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was discovered by his mother at dawn, having stayed awake through the night reading Darwin’s Origin of Species.

“I loved the book so much, Mummy, I couldn’t stop reading,” he explained. He later told a friend that God “doesn’t actually exist. We’ve been deceived.”

“How can you say such a thing?” the friend exclaimed.  The boy responded by handing his friend a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species.

Who is the boy?  Joseph Stalin (orchestrator of the Great Purge or Soviet Holocaust which resulted in the deaths of millions of soviet citizens).