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True. But just assume for a minute we were designed by a higher power. In that case, no matter what science comes up with will be wrong, since they do not allow for that possibility. It will be science. But it will also be wrong

It only works if your assumption is correct. We could equally say quit trying to understand gravity... it is an "Intelligent hand" pushing you down. Or quit studying weather because it is an "intelligent weatherman" making the weather.

I am not saying that we quit trying to understand anything. The collection of data and information is important whether or not the theories that try to explain it are accurate or incomplete or not.

Most great technology happens because we have a lot of data points, not because we understand what is going on. Most great technology discoveries are done using trial and error, which you would not need if you understood how everything works beforehand.

One good example is microprocessor technology, which was relatively new when I was in college. When I took a microcircuits technology class, there was only one textbook out on creating microprocessor circuits on silicon wafers. Rather than a bunch of canned formulas, it was basically like a cookbook where you started out etching a pattern created by some image projected by light waves that allowed an acid to etch the surface and then apply p and n type material in hot gas concentrations. All of this knowledge had been obtained by extensive trial and error, the temperature, concentrations of gases, types of material used, etc.

Indeed the initial momentum for doing this came from theories about silicon and other elements that allowed them to create p and n junctions, which if they were wrong the silicon idea might would not have worked, but the real solution came from actually trying to do it.

I think the same is true for the pharmeceutical companies. They may start out with a theory, but some are dead ends but even goods ones involve extensive trial and error testing.

One of the problems with evolution theories is there is no possibility to do trial and error testing on whether we all descended from some initial life form. All methods of trying to verify such ideas are indirect and require many assumptions and theories that themselves cannot be verified directly.