Does "Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away" mean...

Does "Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away" mean "Don't waste loving ignorance by researching it thoroughly"?

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A lot more work needs to be done, of course, and I'm sure it will
be. Such work would never be done if scientists were satisfied with
a lazy default such as 'intelligent design theory' would encourage.
Here is the message that an imaginary 'intelligent design theorist'
might broadcast to scientists: 'If you don't understand how some-
thing works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't
know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand
how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photo-
synthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go
to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear
scientist, don't work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries, for
we can use them. Don't squander precious ignorance by
researching it away. We need those glorious gaps as a last refuge for God.'
St Augustine said it quite openly: 'There is another form of temp-
tation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of
curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of
nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which