The Art Of Misdirection

Misdirection: The Evolutionist’s Weapon of Choice

Magicians, aka illusionists, often rely on misdirection to create the sense of magic.

The magician will draw the audience’s attention away from himself at the critical moment so they won’t notice how the trick is performed. A card shark can also use misdirection to secretly pull a card from his sleeves. During World War II, magician Jasper Maskelyne used misdirection brilliantly against the Germans—for instance when he “relocated” the city of Alexandria, Egypt, by placing fake buildings and night lights in a location 3 miles from the actual city while Alexandria itself went dark.

Evolutionists long ago realized the power of misdirection. Today they use it deftly in their attempts to silence disagreement. They don’t erect fake cities or pull cards out of their sleeves. Instead they use ridicule, intimidation, baiting, and countless other tactics to draw attention away from the real issue—the evidence.

Ridicule is the most powerful weapon in the evolutionists’ arsenal. No one likes to be made fun of or called names. Evolutionists sling words like wacko, crazy, stupid, ignorant, and worse coupled with insinuations of misconduct at anyone who dares criticize evolutionary theories. Many people will clam up in the face of such attacks, and this is precisely what the attackers desire. Dissenters may also find themselves labeled extremists, anti-evolutionists, or evolution deniers. These linguistic attacks, however, serve as nothing more than clever and sometimes amusing misdirection designed to take pressure off the evolutionists. No need to discuss the evidence when you’ve got everyone defending themselves from personal attacks. As a bonus, anyone who isn’t on the defensive has been humiliated into silence.

How should you handle ridicule? Ignore it. The attacker’s balloon will swiftly deflate if you fail to provide the fire needed to fill it with hot air.

When it comes to misdirection, though, evolutionists have other weapons at their discretion. In part two of this series I’ll discuss another misdirection tactic, baiting.

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence” said Frederick Douglass

 

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