[MrB]

Evolution is like a nice, big, palm sized rock.
It may be a fact that it is a rock. It may have certain properties that are beneficial,

but it also has the ability to be used as a weapon, and that’s how it’s been used in the past century.

When communists invaded countries in Europe, they didn’t indoctrinate people with the benefits of communism, they taught evolution.

They did this because the “reasonable/logical” conclusions of evolution are that

human life has no inherent value,
there is no need for a deity and therefore no existance of one,
and you should just submit to the deity-like authority of the State, because there is no higher authority.

Fine, it’s “science”, it’s _A_ way to explain observed similarities in species,

but that’s not WHAT IT’S USED FOR.

[tacticalogic]

When communists invaded countries in Europe, they didn’t indoctrinate people with the benefits of communism, they taught evolution.

I'm having a hard time believing the Soviets didn't conduct any political indoctrination classes in their classrooms.

[atlaw]

When communists invaded countries in Europe, they didn’t indoctrinate people with the benefits of communism, they taught evolution.

Communists put evolutionary biologists and geneticists in the gulag. Lamarckism and Lysenkoism was the order of the day. And it led to some rather disastrous agricultural policies.

[Calusa]

Fine, it’s “science”, it’s _A_ way to explain observed similarities in species,

but that’s not WHAT IT’S USED FOR.

Well said, better than I could have ever expessed it. Thanks.

[wintertime]

but that’s not WHAT IT’S USED FOR.
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Bingo!