@SeaTriskeLion
Given the instruction to "read and analyze scholarly material" I strongly suggest you NOT quote anything from Google...always go to the original sources and read and quote from there. Google -- and all forums (including ScubaBoard) -- are not "scholarly material" but rather are full of opinions stated as facts, and BS stated as facts, and BS stated as opinion so is argued incorrectly to be OK because it is "just an opinion." A second huge error found in the non-scholarly material is to assert that something is "just a theory" so it can be ignored if one chooses; in the scholarly world a "theory" is something that explains the evidence......but in forums a theory is often incorrectly conflated with "hypothesis." A third huge error found in the non-scholarly literature is to assert whether one "believes" something or not; facts -- even if controversial like vaccines, climate change, and evolution -- are not something one "believes," but rather are facts based on well-founded evidence. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
Google IS useful in helping you find source material, which is your target. Google Scholar actually contains source material so is very useful....but make sure your references and quotes are from the sources themselves.