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Two degrees of Adolf Hitler.
Yesterday I challenged readers to do ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson one better at the guilt-by-association game. I invited the public to connect, “six degrees”-style, one or more of the remaining three major presidential candidates to der Führer und Reichskanzler himself, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

Had Stein the good sense to invoke Godwin’s law, he would have suggested to the script writers, producer, director and editors that they get all the Nazi references out of there.

“Whence do we get the right to believe that man was not from his very beginnings that what he is today? A look at nature shows us that, in the realm of the plants and animals, changes and adaptations happen. But no development is shown, inside a species, that includes a leap as large as man would have had to make to evolve from some apelike state to what he is today.”

The quote comes from a source considered somewhat questionable as a work purely of Hitler’s: Table Talk/Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier

This quote is, at least, consistent with the evidence in the first edition of Mein Kampf that Hitler was a young earth creationist (though a later edition changed a reference to the thousands of year old earth to “millions,” though we don’t know exactly who made the change).

I think the edited page from Mein Kampf is perhaps even funnier than the above graphi though, if only because it contains on the same page that reference to the earth moving through the ether as it did “thousands” of years ago.