They have decided they don’t like a thesis and are looking for reasoning to explain those feelings. What they are not doing is trying to understand the evidence for the thesis. They believe that science is one person saying the viewpoint they already hold is how the thesis they don’t like or understand is ‘disproven’.
They are not curious for discovery, they are curious how to explain their pre-existing worldview in “science-y words” because they feel unable to reconcile their faith with reason. In another life they would have been the monk writing how the patterning on flowers is proof of Jesus’ suffering.