Funny how many of those tatctics are either ones many people use, some because they are good ones, or are tactics alot of creationists use.
Lets see wich ones are ironic.
**2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.**
This is just common sense, you don't send someone whose a expert on astronomy to try to debate on evolution or biology, or physics, unless they are a expert on astrophysics or the sort. I fail to see how this is a tactic as much as common sense or some how bad.
**3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)**
Creationists tactic #1, also known as the gish shuffle, how many videos on youtube that are responses to, "10 questions evolutionists can't answer." and the 3/4's of the answers are, "Thats not evolution or biology." Lets see topics every evolutionary scientist or lamen must know about to answer questions from a cretaionist on, "Evolutionary biology", geology, abiogenesis, cosmology, astronomy, physics and many more,they must be up to date on every single field and every known bit of information, or if they can't answer a single question even if unrelated and as obscure, or even out of date as possible, evolution is false.
**5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."**
Technically for creationists these ones tend to fit together, half the arguments against creationism or even thigns in general are, "Argumentum ad consequentium." How many, "Well you just want to be a monkey, or you want to excuse having no morals. Or, if were all descended from animals, then we might as well act like animals." and many other emotional appeals, and ridicule, and they are all stupid.
Evolution could turn every single person into mindless, homicidal child eating comunist atheists, hellbent on killing everything on the planet, and it still wouldn't prove or disprove evolution, what you think of something, or what you like or dislike about something doesn't change wether it's true. It's funny many creationists will sit there and refuse to accept, "Well your gods a evil maniacle maniac." as a excuse not to believe, some even going as far to say well he's just as he is, but will then turn around and use the same argument against others. I find this argument the worst, because it's this idea that how much yu want something to not be true, or to be true some how makes it so, and it hurts any arguments you might have in your favour.
**9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."**
two words pascals wager, and three words, "Argumentum ad consequentium." again.
**10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."**
Gee, sound like creationist/Idists tactics, strike multiple places, when you fail in one place try again elsewhere, even change your name and stripes, but use everything from before with different lables.
