An Inferiority Complex Among Christians

The prestige of science has produced an “inferiority complex” in Christians. Science produces “results,” as a result of what no one will deny is really knowledge; but this has produced in general an air of superstitious awe surrounding the pronouncements of “science” (or, rather, scientists) on many things which it is not competent to judge. And so when science touches on things mentioned in Scripture, for example, believers are much too quick to back off and defend their treasures by saying they are “metaphors” or do not mean literally what they say. This is nowhere clearer than in the first chapters of Genesis, which such believers hasten to interpret in a way acceptable to the latest “scientific opinion.”