Science & Tech Quote by Henry M. Morris

A neat little magic trick is happening here: the conclusion is baked into the premise, and the audience is invited to call it “obvious.” Henry M. Morris isn’t arguing with science so much as redefining it. Science, in this frame, is welcome only as a supporting actor - a method allowed to operate as long as it arrives at the pre-approved destination. The moment it doesn’t, the problem can’t be the Bible, can’t be doctrine, can’t be interpretation; it has to be “data.”

That word choice matters. “Misinterpreted its data” sounds technical, modest, even respectful of scientific practice. It’s a strategic soft punch: you don’t have to deny fossils, radiometric dating, or cosmology outright. You just need to cast them as a temporary paperwork error in the lab, while Scripture is positioned as the infallible control group. The subtext is disciplinary: believers get permission to dismiss inconvenient findings without the stigma of being “anti-science,” and scientists are subtly framed as overconfident readers who need an older text to correct them.

Contextually, Morris helped professionalize modern American creationism, especially in the post-Scopes, Cold War-era culture wars when “scientific” authority carried enormous public weight. The line functions as a slogan for that project: keep the prestige of science, strip it of final authority. It’s apologetics with a marketer’s ear - simple, memorable, and designed to turn a conflict into a one-way street where only one side ever has to revise its views.