Evolution does not assist in organizing facts and data. It makes unnecessary assumptions once the data has already been organized. I could learn the ins and outs of molecular biology very easily without making the assumption there is no god involved, but I could n't even participate in the gathering and observation of facts were it not for intelligence and design.
No you couldn't and that's the whole point.
You may believe that God designed the universe, and you may very well be right. But once the universe is in motion, the only way science can operate is to assume that day to day affairs are not tampered with, and that ordinary processes and phenomena work according to initial laws and conditions.
A lot of IDers like to cite the existence of a modern jetliner, and ask how do you suppose it came into existence. When you answer this question you are drawing on knowledge and experience. Obviously the first time isolated tribes saw an airplane they had no frame of reference from which to answer.
The same is true of how biologists go about answering the question of how species come into existence. Someone with no grounding in molecular biology, or someone who believes that physical processes are tampered with on a regular basis, will have a different conjecture from someone who believes the laws of nature are constant over time.
The assumption that the laws of nature are constant is the heart and soul of science. You can't do science without believing that the phenomena you observe are the result of regular and untampered processes. You might well be the world's greatest lab technician, but as a researcher you will never be able to ask original scientific questions.
Utterly false. Without Evolution there is no framework to organize anything in biology. Your'e just birdwatching.
In the case of Linnaeus, the *fact* of evolution jumped out at him because he organized the data- after he had organized all known life, he began to doubt that species are immutable.
Remember that Darwin came up withnatural selection - it was already known that some sort of evolution had taken place, and other scientists and scholars like Lamarck had come up with theories. Only Darwin's has survived all tests.