IOW, they acknowledged the doubt and ran with the hypothesis anyhow. Like you seem to have said was a crippling conflict. Except that it isn't: the Bible explicitly points out that Christians' current knowledge is incomplete, that it can be incorrect, and will ultimately be corrected to perfection by God.
I have quoted your own words to you twice now. I'll not continue to do so.
I'm saying that in spite of a supernaturalistic worldview which would seemingly open the door wide for such a thing,
Now...why would a belief in God be expected to "open the door wide" for skeptical doubt about the nature of certainty about evidence? This seems to me to be precisely the opposite of the case.
which you claimed to be a showstopper,
Eh? Where did I do that?
Christian scientists were not stopped in their progress in the scienceS (deliberate capitalization).
Based on what metrics? Please don't answer unless you can do so without the half-dozen or so extraneous one-liner insults.
The sole exception being macroevolution as the story of all life on earth, and for many not even that.]
Well, you lost me on that curve.