NYcarbineer
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a. One of the first readers of 'On the Origin of Species' was Friedrich Engels, then living in Manchester. He wroteto Karl Marx: "Darwin, by the way, whom I’m reading just now, is absolutely splendid. There was one aspect of teleology that had yet to be demolished,and that has now been done. Never before has so grandiose an attempt been made to demonstrate historical evolution in Nature, and certainly never to such good effect."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Marx-Engels Collected Works" , vol. 40, p. 441.
This is another example of a classic logical fallacy.
If someone you don't like believes something, if someone you think is wrong about other things believes something,
then that something must be untrue.
Or, put another way, if the Devil tells you 1 + 1 = 2...
...you'd better stop believing that.