If science relied on ancient texts then it wouldn’t be science. I don’t know more curious people than scientists. Scientists probably entertain wilder ideas and theories than most people. If you want to know the way God works, then you must honestly do the research, hypothesize, and experiment with what you have. What is the point of this process if you are not going to believe the results?
Now about your first para. Let’s replace the word God with boogeyman. Say a kid decides that the boogeyman under his bed exists but he read in a book that he cannot see him but he totally lives under his bed. Does this boogeyman exist? Nobody knows so no one is right or wrong. It doesn’t matter what the kid believes because he hasn’t seen the boogeyman either.