Darwin's influence on Stalin

Folks,

Can a historian that knows help me with this one. Was it the reading of
Darwin that moved Darwin to atheism. Nancy Pearcy in her new book
suggests that and Answers in Genesis below also suggests it.

However sometimes simple stories are more complicated. Just wondered if
these writers are right.

"But early in his life Stalin experienced a dramatic change of career.
While studying at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, he began to read the
works of Charles Darwin. He developed a critical mind and revolutionary
bent. One of his friends later said in a book—which was published in
Moscow while Stalin was still in power—that when Stalin began to read
Darwin he became an atheist."

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