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Lunatics say all kind of things. How about looking into the history of Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts?

You are comparing the Soviet Union under Stalin to the Boy Scouts??

But OK, Robert Baden-Powell What exactly do you object to about the guy?

If I were trying to determine the influence of an idea, I would look to the influence on sane people, not the mentally ill.

Stalin was sane by any definition. He functioned quite well in the world. If he was arrested and tried for his crimes he would not be able to plead diminished capacity.

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But OK, Robert Baden-Powell What exactly do you object to about the guy?

His father was the first Anglican clergyman to support Darwin. He published a theory of evolution before Darwin. His influence on his son was obviously corrupting.

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Stalin was a psychopath, by any definition of the word. That is a mental abnormality, by any definition of the term.

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But most interestingly, Stalin outlawed the teaching of Darwinian evolution and substituted a form of Lamarkianism that looks very much like what folks like Shapiro, the darling of the ID crowd, are promoting.

Stalin's approved biology taught that environmental stress induced adaptive and heritable changes in organisms. This is exactly what some of the modern ID folks are saying.

Of course millions of people starved to death as a result of Stalin rejecting mainstream biology.