Powerful stuff for those who identify themselves as people of Christian faith, particularly in the evangelical tradition of the twentieth century.

When the church began to doubt its own integrity after the Darwinian attack on Genesis 1 and 2, we began to answer science not by appealing to something greater, the realm of beauty and art and spirituality, but by attempting to translate spiritual realities through scientific equations, thus justifying ourselves to culture, as if culture had some kind of authority to redeem us in the first place.

…Because we have approached faith through the lens of science, the rich legacy of art that once flowed out of the Christian community has dried up.  The poetry of Scripture, especially in the case of Moses, began to be interpreted literally and mathematically, and whole books such as the Song of Songs were completely and totally ignored.  They weren’t scientific.  You couldn’t break them down into bullet points.  Morality became a code, rather than a manifestation of a love for Christ, the way a woman is faithful to her husband, the way a man is faithful to his wife.  These relational ideas were replaced with wrong and right, good and bad, with only hinted suggestions as to where wrong and right and good and bad actually came from.  Old Testament stories became formulas for personal growth rather than stories to help us understand the character and nature of the God with whom we interact.

Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What, Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2004, pp. 160-161.