Well, since you are talking about some church other than the one I belong to, this isn't very interesting to me.
Well if you do, from whence is your straw man?
To ass-u-me you can dumb down a mystical event, that displays mystical behavior, into what we call science today, is pretty doggone presumptuous. It’s putting the thumb of flesh on the scale.
The attempt is understandable, humans will always quest wherever they can, but the dogmatic treatment of one version of the results isn’t.