Earlier you stated this was a one-time event, the result of divine intervention, producing conditions that have never occurred before and never will again, and it cannot be known exactly what they were and they cannot be reproduced or studied. How is science supposed to "conform" to that?
Science needs to recognize it boundaries - it will never conform to that which is histoically based with few if any facts to be ascertained
I would envision most folks ‘conforming’ would work like a great murder mystery. Once you have enough of the facts the big picture becomes clear enough to conclude that there is only one origins theory which explains all or most all of the data points and all the others pale in comparison.
I never said nor implied that it was all divine intervention just left the possibility open. From my puny perspective God intervenes in our lives as little as possible [just like a good parent would do] in order to maximize our potential for growth. I’m also certain God would intervene [like a good parent] whenever the failures and short-comings are too much to be overcome naturally.
I happen to feel like we have collected enough facts or data points, but now the hard part is the paradigm shift where folks are so heavily invested in old wrong theories that it will take magnitudes more persuasion for those so entrenched than on a younger mind that did not have a chance to feed on or fully acept the mistakes of other theories. We see this problem today with the war on poverty, the drug war, the federal dept of ‘education’ and most esp. AGW.
Our biggest problem in the current age is far too many are willing to accept what the authority figures teach than apply critical thinking and outside the box approaches and solutions. We should love and evaluate debates but most seem to love to choose the ‘easy button’ - whatever is popular and widely accepted must be true.