But he perceived their craftiness,... Luke 20:23
"William the Conqueror defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England,
Harold II, at the Battle of Hastings (1066). But William planned to
stay, so he needed to consolidate his position. He 
appointed many of his
loyal followers to positions of authority but made sure they were both
protected and feared. So over the rest of his reign, he built over 700
castles as strongholds for his appointed lords—for safety and to show
who was boss.
He chose a particular design, now called motte and bailey.
This design was relatively easy to build. It was also hard to breach
with its two defensive barriers. The outer part—protected by a moat or
wall—was the bailey, a wide area where people could live and work. If the bailey were breached, the defenders could retreat to the motte.
The motte was cramped and unpleasant but more strongly protected on
higher ground. Defenders could shoot arrows at the attackers. Once the
attackers gave up, they could return to the more pleasant living
conditions of the bailey.
The real ‘general theory of evolution’ is “all the living forms in the
world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an
inorganic form.” And
the inorganic chemicals ultimately came from hydrogen, itself produced
by the big bang, where nothing exploded and became everything (cf. pp.
46–50).
This is the bailey: the true position of atheistic evolutionists and
the 
issue under debate. Sometimes the bailey meets challenges too hard
to defend against, for example, an amazing design in nature, such as the
baobab tree or bacterial compasses.
The
evolutionist will then retreat to a motte: “Evolution is defined as
changing of gene frequencies over time. How can anyone be silly enough
to deny this?” Indeed not; no creationist does deny it! But this was not
the real argument. Many evolutionists hope that creationists will be
neutralized long enough, so they can get back to their bailey.
Another one is the fossil record. Evolutionists say this formed over
millions of years and records evolution in the rock record (bailey).
Creationists point to the need for rapid processes, such as burying huge
whales and dinosaurs or carving gorges.
Sometimes evolutionists retreat to a motte, “A non-deceiving God would
not create fossils to test our faith.” No informed creationist has ever
taught this, but rather that most fossils were formed by the global
Flood of Genesis 6–8.
In opposing creation apologetics, many commit the motte-and-bailey
fallacy.
---Some churchian compromisers don’t want to deal with the clear
connection of creation with the Gospel and Biblical authority (bailey).
---So they retreat to the motte, “Belief in young-earth creation is not
essential for salvation.”---
But this evades the real issue, the creationist position that long-age
views place human and animal death and disease before sin.
Q: If
death were not connected to sin, how could Jesus’ death pay for sin?"
Sarfarti/CMI
