Because it can’t. There is nothing testable about someone who claims God healed them for example. There is no way to detect the direct interaction and trace how a non-material being just interacted in the physical world. Yes, God is called the healer in the OT and Jesus clearly healed people, but it is not a scientific question. The healing prayer experiments have turned out quite badly in general. Or someone who claims that God spoke to them. Did He? Well maybe but it is not a scientific question, especially if it is a non-audible/metaphysical voice that produces no signal for an instrument to detect.
Can you name some just wondering, that scientists just won’t touch? The beauty of science, as opposed to how many Christians view the Scriptures is that as there are no sacred tomes and no untouchable truths. If it can be tested and examined, it will be.
And I put the Lamoureux article in there, since he sums up what I was trying to say in many posts, knowing full well that you don’t agree with him (I was assuming you could remain somewhat neutral in this particular book chapter since it is not his particular interpretation of Genesis). Are there any actual examples of something you can point out that can show to me that this is not ancient science? In all my study of other Cosmologies in other creation accounts, the Bible is not unique in its scientific claims, though is unique in some of its theological claims. In other words, the whole reason I am talking about this point so much is that the Bible, being written in ancient science, can be very flexible in how it is understood concerning the material world while still gleaning and hearing the deep theological truths contained therein. So again, being ancient science, it doesn’t matter if the scriptures appear to contradict the Big Bang, Evolution, billions of years. I can still come alongside the text and hear God speaking through it without worrying about what science provides as a better idea of reality in those areas it can test.