Just a minimal note here on "scientific" and "prevailing" ...
For a process to be scientific, you must be able to have 3rd, 4th, multiple-party replications of the experiment/process which give the same results. In real-life geological time spans, "same results" would be within a certain number of centuries "plus or minus" ... "Prevailing," almost by definition, applies to theory or belief rather than to proven/proveable fact. For instance, the prevailing explanation for fossils and geological formations -- shown to date back millenia using scientific method -- by "Young Earthers" is that everything found & studied was somehow "pre-aged" and placed in situ by the Creator a few thousand years ago. However, none of the arguments the "Young Earthers" come up with seem to offer any reason why a Creator would pull that sort of BS on creatures S/He loved and made guardians of said Earth. -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
