There's the lexicon of real science then the lexicon of 'popular' science which makes it into the wider press. News science articles are chock-full of "living fossils' and "missing links" and "final pieces to the puzzle" and such nonsense. There's always got to be a hook.

I recall a couple years ago a deep-diving anthropology team discovered some very well preserved ancent habitation settlements offshore in the Aegean. At the press conference I think the first question asked was if this site was proof of the Biblican 'great floor'. I swear, it the scientist at the podium had been taking a sip of water he would've done a spit-take! He was flabberghasted by the sheer idiocy of the question. Don't mistake 'science news' headlines for the actual science.

Hey!

Maybe it was Atlantis?

Ya think???

Actually Religious fundamentalists rejected the Noahan flood aspect of the discovery since the archeologists documented that the floow wasn't world wide.

Although the innundated villages, likely as a result of sea level rising due to retreating glaciers, was considered the origin of the flood Stories in the Babalonia stories of Gilgimesh, which was considered the forerunner for the Genesis Noahan Flood story.

Science journalists have a lot to answer for.

Another example, the "God Particle" (Higgs boson) that the LHD may or may not find. (The idiocy in that particular case being compounded by the likes of Dan Brown's latest godawful piece of trash celluloid, where it becomes the motivation for the assassination of the Pope by his young aide, on the grounds that it's blastphemous, even though no scientist actually refers to it as the "god particle," or believes it has any theological implications of any kind).

Dan Brown wrote the book, but it isn't really 'his' movie. You'll have to blame Opie for that.

The story involves antimatter, not the Higgs Boson.

That said, it is the sort of science fiction that requires suspension of disbelief.