Since when did a belief in young Earth creationism become a deciding factor of whether one is a conservative or not?
Seems you made that connection, not I...
I was just observing that the same blindness as to the mutability of what is “settled” or “known” applies to those who rely on “science” as the root of their epistemology as it does to those who rely on the zeitgeist as the root of their epistemology.