If Science and scientists were reliable in advising then maybe we would not feel a need to preserve scriptures down the generations. Too much conflicting so-called scientifice advice surrounds us about how to live and work and especially rulers must find this upsetting so some have enough wisdom to reach beyond it to seek a true message from a true and wise God who we feel is there. These messages are rare enough that we want to preserve the best of them so we preserve and filter (select) them as scripture and God helps this and actually leads it and provides it. The Jews have been supreme in this over the millenia as priests to all the world effectively. Now some who aren't Jews are involved more than in the early civilisations. Before the Jews some like Enoch did it and Egypt and Babylon sought to preserve such wisdom as that which had come through Enoch and others. The coning of The Christ was a crucial moment in all this.
