TSAWTB Section 6 - Interlude - A Miscellany of Items

256 Section 6 - Interlude
Eakman in her Educating for the New World Order (Eak).
This technique is set out in some Rand research documents, funded by the
American taxpayer, that show how to bring about changes in education. The
method consists of inviting the help of a “technical assistant” or “facilitator”
usually drawn from the ranks of those in the behavioural sciences and
colleges. He first gathers around him people interested in the particular
change proposed, making himself a friend of both those for and those against
the idea. The purpose is to get to know their attitudes and reactions, strengths
and weaknesses.
When the time is right, he then sets the “pro” group against the “con” group
and uses the resulting “escalation of tension” for his own purposes. The “pro”
group are promoted in importance, whilst the “con” group are made to seem
“ridiculous, unknowledgable, dogmatic or inarticulate” and they are shut out
of any publicity given to the subject. Eakman comments:
And the targets rarely, if ever, know they are being manipulated. Or,
if they suspect, they don’t know how (Eak:128).
This technique may not strictly apply to the creation movement, but we can
expect to be infiltrated by those professing to be creationists. They may be on
committees and have inside knowledge of what creationists intend to do. They
will have much media attention and act as spokesmen, but when there is a
need for speaking out clearly on behalf of creationism, they will be found to
suddenly fail. For example, an important court case may be led by them but at
the crucial point they will present the issues so incompetently that the case
will be lost.
Claims such as these may be thought exaggerated, but those who have had
to deal with strong opposition to the creationist cause can tell of the
underhand activities that they have been subjected to. The Christian should
always be “as gentle as doves”, but we have been warned that with it we
should also be “as wise as serpents” (Matt. 10:16).
SECTION 6.5
THE BARRIERS TO MASS PUBLICITY
It is evident that the true Christian faith gets not just no publicity but
considerable ridicule on TV and in many major papers and magazines. In
plays, the vicar is often portrayed as either weak and timid or bold and
bombastic. The only Christian services that are presented are either very highly
emotionally charged or the very orderly high ritual of the older denominations.
How many times has the real gospel been presented in any section of the
British mass media?
I have been speaking and writing on the subject of the scientific evidence
against evolution and for creation since 1969, and occasionally, after giving a
lecture, an enthusiastic young person might come up and say that he had never
heard this evidence before, and that this should be on the TV - “as they have
special programmes for people like you with unusual ideas.”, etc.
My reply is to encourage them to write to the TV company, but I warn them
of the response that they will get. They will receive a polite letter explaining
why they do not think that the subject is “appropriate” or they have taken the
advice of experts (evolutionists of course!) who do not consider the case has
any support from “senior members of the profession” - or some such excuse.
If the recipient is not satisfied with the reasons given he might write again, but