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[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The brutal [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] was greatly influenced by the work of [[Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin who was also an atheist]] (see: [http://www.conservapedia.com/Charles_Darwin#Religious_Views_of_Charles_Darwin religious views of Charles Darwin) ].<ref>http://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>http://creation.com/communism-and-nazism-questions-and-answers</ref><ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1914/</ref> Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to atheistic [[communism]] is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref> [[Evolution|Evolutionary]] ideas significantly influenced the thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth-century [[Communism|communists]].<ref>http://creation.com/communism-and-nazism-questions-and-answers</ref><ref>http://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1914/</ref>

[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The brutal proponent of atheism [[Joseph Stalin]] of the Soviet Union. Professor R. J. Rummel is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Rummel's mid estimate is that communism under Stalin, Mao and other dictators caused the death of approximately 110 million people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref> ]]  

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The '''history of atheism''', depending on how one defines the term, can be dated to as early as the 6th century BC, or as recently as the late 18th century AD. The word ''[[atheism]]'' itself  was not coined until the 16th century.<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism</ref>  

The '''history of atheism''', depending on how one defines the term, can be dated to as early as the 6th century BC, or as recently as the late 18th century AD. The word ''[[atheism]]'' itself  was not coined until the 16th century.<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheism</ref>