Science is based upon an epistemology that recognizes the primacy of reality - not the primacy of an explanation.
I might also add that it is also in no way dependent upon the personal beliefs or character of the ex plainer. Science is not carried out by saints or prophets, but men and women.
The sicko who figured out that Mad Cow Disease came from eating brains may have been in New Guinea for immoral purposes, but his finding is 100% correct.
The widely debunked, yet still frequent trotted out, deathbed renunciation of evolution from Darwin, is untrue; but immaterial to the science even if it was true.
If Newton on his deathbed had screamed out “it is Force equals mass times acceleration CUBED!” it wouldn't have changed the fact that it is actually force equals mass times acceleration squared.
The skeptic in all of us needs to take the publications of Brian Thomas with a very small pinch of salt. He is predisposed to taking a legitimate paper, mining a nugget from it, stating that it then "suggests" an alternate meaning or purpose to the paper and then concluding with a classical "if-then" recitation of his agenda. He is the YEC version of Erich von Däniken.
Then, to our detriment, process is then repeated on Thomas' article by GGG.