Thank you Lea Jones for helping to clarify a major issue.  The claim  that a single  questionable finding could overturn years of careful scientific  research is astounding.
Back in the 1870s a great UO science professor, the Rev. Thomas Condon, proposed  that there need be no conflict between Christianity and the new science of evolution.  He felt the  strata of the layers of rock told him the same story as the  pages of the Bible, a magnificent , complex creation.  
Condon, like Lee and Schweitzer,  would not have agreed to this "two competing philosophies" concept  being brandished yet today.  
[Though he eventually came to respect Prof.  Condon, in the beginning Mathew P. Deady thought Condon was a lightweight who shouldn't be dabbling in science but should be preaching the Bible instead; he famously complained  that  with Condon,  "Christ and him crucified is entirely subordinate to "The Rocks and Them Stratified." ]