The ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing.

人们一直怀疑科学发现或严格的圣经研究将破坏信仰，这是默认信仰受到知识的威胁，因为它最终是建立在薄弱或错误的假设之上的，就像众所周知的纸牌屋一样，需要“保护”自己不崩溃。