We have all heard the story that an ostrich, when in danger, would bury its head in the sand, assuming that if the impending trouble were not seen, it would cease to exist or at least go away.
Some people believe that Christian Scientists are figuratively burying their heads in the sand when they deny reality to evil. To them this denial is a foolish attempt to run away from reality, a psychological gimmick to avoid facing the challenge of apparent evil.
But students of this Science do not ignore or run away from the claims of evil. They learn how to uncover and analyze evil's seeming operations, and how to destroy evil scientifically with the higher law of good. Mrs. Eddy teaches that evil was never actually created because the creator of all is God, infinite good, who can know and produce nothing unlike Himself. This position is fully supported by the Bible, for we read in Genesis, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31;
