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”they seem to be oblivious to the entirety of implications contained within their "feely-[sic] chosen" position.” (“They” being those Masters of the Universe sometimes identified as Scientists, or, more commonly, Evolutionists - ‘evos’)

Perhaps it is pride which motivates evos. But, for example, in the chicken/egg issue over Darwin/Marx - which came first, pride seems hardly adequate to explain why evos refuse to acknowledge that the Marxist era stands astride the Darwin era (that is, the time when each produced their major works). While quick to point out (vehemently) that Marx’s Manifesto was published well before Darwin’s Origins, Evolutionists are entirely silent on the subject of Das Kapital, Marx’s most signal work, which was published some several years after Origins. This attitude is particularly hard to fathom since the proposed intellectual association of Darwin/Marx seems to have emanated entirely from the Marxist side. Darwin’s reaction to Marxist overtures appears to have been somewhat similar to what it would have been had he encountered a skunk under his front porch; respectful, but keeping a very considerable distance.

Obliviousness seems to offer no better prospects as an explanation than does pride.

Still, I choose not to regard evos as ‘pointy-eared anthropoids’ without free will or conscience. But maybe that’s just a personal disposition.

"While quick to point out (vehemently) that Marx’s Manifesto was published well before Darwin’s Origins, Evolutionists are entirely silent on the subject of Das Kapital, Marx’s most signal work, which was published some several years after Origins."

There is nothing in Kapital that is even remotely Darwinian. We are not *silent* on this, as you suggest. We just correctly pint out that there is no connection between what Marx and Engel's wrote in their books and what Darwin wrote in his. No creationist has been able to show how Marx is alleged to have adopted the ideas of natural selection or descent with modification into his political ideology. Vague talk about shared *materialism* won't cut it. Darwin's ideas are much more compatible with those of capitalists, not communists. That's why Stalin had those who taught natural selection killed.