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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life’s pilgrimage.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.