Then came Darwin. Evolution could be seen as an attempt to extract God from the gaps. Protestant fundamentalists and Catholics alike retained belief in the special creation of humankind. Religious fundamentalism and strict literal interpretation of translated scripture, when forced to play by the rules of science, failed the test. The answer to authority is evidence.
Evolution is a fact.
It can say things other than what the translated words appear to mean. Not so the fundamentalists. Remember our earlier assertion that the religious paradigm begins with Truth. Firmly held belief beats evidence any day, and not just in religious matters. Or, better still, the tale of the eminent astronomer who reported the phenomenon of intermittent flaring of phosphorus emission lines in the spectra of certain stars.