When I read Darwin's Origin of Species, I didn't notice him predicting you could stimulate an amoeba into morphing into an elephant. You appear to be ignorant of what evolution actually is or says.
Scientists have a limited outlook because they want to believe in a world which exists physically and stuff happens physically and randomly, with no purpose or plan behind it all. This desire for there to be no purpose is not scientific. The mere existence of life, its evolution or whatever you want to call it, and especially the development of consciousness are incredible mysteries. Even if I attribute it all to nature and not to God, Why?? Why does it all exist, and why did we rise up from nature to look back on it all and reflect? Science not only doesn't know, it doesn't want to know.
Maybe some day. Humans have only been practicing science for a very short time.
I'm not anti-science. But if you think science is the work of advanced amoebas explain it to me. Why can't scientists take the amoeba and engineer an elephant? Both creatures contain the same elements.
And both lead and gold contain the same sorts of subatomic particles. Do scientists have to be able to transmute lead into gold before you'll take the periodic table seriously? (And you say you're 'not anti-science'?)