Darwin, Marx, and two letters
by Russell Grigg I believe that the Darwinian belief system is at the root of the collapse of your human civilisation. Once you convince people that they arrived by chance, “Goo to you via the Zoo” it is really game over for rational thinking. Why not support Cration.com and their highly successful campaign to address this fraudulent concept? Click on the author’s name above to read his biography, below to access the Craetin website. https://creation.com/ Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Karl Marx (1818–1883), the founder of communism, called religion (meaning Christianity) “the opium of the people”. 1 He was enthusiastic that Darwin’s evolutionary theory (Origin of Species, 1859) provided a completely materialistic explanation of living things. Marx even sent a copy of Volume 1 of his book Das Kapital2 (published in German in 1867) to Darwin with the handwritten inscription: Mr Charles Darwin On the part of his sincere admirer Karl Marx London 16 June 1873 Modena Villas Maitland. Darwin is unlikely to have read it, however. Apart from being in German, only the first 100 pages had been ‘opened’. (Prior to the widespread use of printing guillotines, a book was generally sold ‘unopened’, i.e. with “the folding of its component sections still intact at the top and fore-edges”, and so the pages had to be “severed from their neighbours with the paper-knife.”3) Letter 1—the Marx-dedication myth There has always been a huge causal relationship between belief in evolution and disbelief in the Bible, disbelief in God, and disbelief in one’s need of the Gospel. It has long been thought that at a later date, Marx wrote to Darwin offering to dedicate one of the later volumes of his book to him. This is because a letter from Darwin, dated 14 October 1880, was found in Marx’s archives, and in it Darwin declines the offer of a book dedication….