[TremendousJudge]

My point is that the same could be said about phlogistons back in the day. There were a lot of completely different advances in the understanding of physics and chemistry needed to explain combustion and oxidation, and it's a lot more complex than just saying "because phlogistons". It was an extremely simple mechanism which solved all the problems at once, and fit all the data available at the time.

And it doesn't explain anything! We have this entirely new substance and we don't know what it is, what it's made of, where it came from, or why we only have circumstantial evidence for its presence.