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So what you’re saying is that we shouldn’t turn to Torah for science?
The principles of science are contained in Torah. There are technical details, of use to few of us, which we need to use human tools to measure.
The principles that allow a scientist to figure out that star X produces Y heat were laid down at creation. Hashem did not give us the technical details in the Torah because He knows very well we would not sit and listen to chemical equations in shul. Instead He gave us the wisdom to find those details and then to choose between being partners in creation or chas vesholom using the yetzer horo to either walk away from emunah, or, worse, to destroy.
The same nuclear fission that produces electricity in the US is what Mad Mahmoud wants to get his hands on in order to blow up half the world. Hashem created it and it is up to us to find out how to use it the right way.