20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Whether this is scientific light or the light of Christ the action is the same when it rocks their religious ideas -- (To belvie that scientists are not religious is naive) it is attacked, and or ignored
And only when the evidence is so damning that the common people can plainly see the abject lies preached to them does that necessitate doctrinal change.
But the tuth is that most times they just redifine terms and change the name of what they teach so that in fact it does live on -- think of what libs to when their bills fail in congress. They come back again and again under different names and sandwhiched in differnet packaging -- in the hopes that it will be more appealing to the masses they they derrive their power from.
-- EvoDude