That's right. Then it is called "Scientism". Unfortunately it is "Scientism" rather than purely biological evolution, that is in fact being taught in government schools when they attempt to say that man is merely just another animal species "naturally" capable of knowing love, truth, beauty, existence, and the absolute.
They must have skipped that ultra-materialist theological aspect of the theory when I learned and/or taught it in High School.
But then again my teacher was a Catholic - and I am a Christian - as most Scientists in America are people with religious faith - so we would neither accept or teach such.
They are completely orthogonal. Your desire for a spiritual approach to education has no place in science courses of any sort. Science is about method, and this method is increasingly and predominantly guiding policy because it *works*.
The real problem here is not “scientism”, but obscurantism. As Orwell said: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH; and this is how I view political-religious folks. Strong because they are ultimately embracing their very ignorance.
As Haldane pointed out: The moment someone shows me a rabbit fossil from the precambrian, I will cease to believe in evolution. This is how it is: Nothing should be sacred in the pursuit of natural truth.