"Science is the search for knowledge."
About the natural world.
Suppose for the sake of argument that A) God exists and B) the theory of evolution is correct. Would it be appropriate in science class in a public school to suggest that God caused evolution to occur? Or would it be mandatory that evolution be described as happening due to totally natural processes which God had nothing to do with, and which would have occurred exactly the same way whether God exists or not?
This is hypothetical, as noted.
Scientia means knowledge, not nature. I'm well aware of the limits science has placed on the search for knowledge however.
I think I would modify that to "objective knowledge".