Page 107 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Method # 8: By continually repeating empty words
as in a hypnotic spell, they try to put people's logic
to sleep

Another point to stress in relation to the evolutionists' suggestive
rhetoric is their continued use of their empty words and formulas in place
of scientific proof. Through such persuasive methods, these "magic" words
and formulas occur dozens, even hundreds of times in every book they
write, so as to implant them in readers' minds. They load their sentences
with expressions such as, "If human beings exist today, evolution must have
happened," "Humans are the most highly developed animals," "Among all
the species of animals, only human beings . . . ," "Finally, evolution's miss-
ing link has been found," "In the transition from primitive to modern man
… , " "definitely proven, unquestionable facts, has been proven once again,
there is no doubt." All these expressions intend to insinuate in people's
minds the idea that their every statement has a scientific foundation. In their
book Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge
and Its Transmission Through Myth, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von
Dechend state that evolutionists use this method:
Gradually, we are told, step by step, men produced the arts and crafts, this
and that, until they emerged in the light of history . . . Those soporific words
"gradually" and "step-by-step" repeated incessantly, are aimed at covering an
ignorance which is both vast and surprising. One should like to inquire:
Which steps? But then one is lulled, overwhelmed and stupefied by the by the
gradualness of it all, which is at best a platitude, only good for pacifying the
mind, since no one is willing to imagine that civilization appeared in a thun-
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Actually, if any ordinary person used the terms mentioned in the
above quote, he wouldn't be considered reliable. But when someone acting
sure of himself and looking like a serious scientist uses this style, people lis-
ten with amazement.

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