Don wrote:
> Draw your own conclusions about Nancy's scholarship!
A good scholar should take into account where and under what conditions the work was published. Since the book is Russian originally (I presume) and it was published during Stalin's life, one might have a wee bit of skepticism about the author's ability to critically examine the issue. Unless of course, one WANTS to tie Darwin to a mass murderer. INdeed, I would say that this actually is worse than merely chosing to tie Darwin and Stalin, it seems that one must go to quite some lengths to do so. I repeat my question to Pearcy: why not chose anyone other than a mass murderer? There are many people who were influenced by Darwin to become atheists but they, of course, don't have the emotional impact that having a mass murderer at your fingertips does. Like the hagiography about Stalin, this makes Nancy's work look like an Aesop fable, the moral of which is: Believe Darwin and risk becoming like Stalin.
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