“...all positions will be based on belief or faith.”
There are many different versions of faith, many contradictory.
Would God therefore not want us to use science to seek truth?
Would God therefore not want us to use science to seek truth”
He most certainly would, and he does but we can only observe and study what is made available to us. He, archaeologists are still having trouble determining how we lived, using available clues, for the last 450 years.