Re: Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an 'RNA World'

Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:

I don't know about Mao, but Stalin had no problem with evolution.

Omg, the depths you'll sink to...
Stalin banned it. Evolution was a criminal offense until the death
of Stalin!  What they put in it's place was the same nonsense that
Darwin believed:  A paraphrased version of Lamarckism.

In 1959 (100 years after The Origin; 150 years after Darwin's birth) I was at the same school as Darwin, many years after him. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR sent the school a commemorative medal.

That was SIX YEARS AFTER Stalin died!
So even though I have every reason to doubt you sanity, forget
about sincerity, you don't even seem to be able to grasp the
issue here!
Yes. AFTER STALIN DIED they did allow evolution to be taught
and studied in the Soviet Union. AFTER HE DIED.
BEFORE Stalin died, evolution was banned and instead they
taught the same pseudo science that Darwin believed in. There
were very slight differences, most people couldn't even tell,
focusing on different words instead of meaning -- concepts.
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