"Like Topsey, it just growed"?
By its own boundaries, Science can't even essay an answer. Science, by its own rules, is not even permitted to ask the question.
Theological brouhaha.
Of course he did. Thats not in question. The question is, "how"?
And thats where the science guys come in.
Its OK when not everything adds up or that we get it wrong from time to time, in fact its guaranteed that we'll get it wrong on the way to getting it progressively more right. Anomalies are how we get to the next level of understanding. You develop a theory that seems to work. If it works well enough, the engineers use it to build things. Then over time you begin to find the places where it doesn't work, and in figuring out why it doesn't work you find another theory that works better and your formulas get sharpened and your engineers come out with a wave of newer and cooler toys and tools on the market.
And so it goes until you begin to pick holes in your new level of understanding. Insight, followed by science, followed by engineers, followed by anomalies, followed by insight, science, engineers and so on round and round.
Figuring out why the universe seems to be geologically alive is a good project for the science guys. Figuring out that you should love God and love your neighbor, learning how to walk with God and let him flow through you into the circumstances in which you find yourself is another realm of competence.