Evolution or any other scientific study is not enhanced nor diminished by the inclusion or exclusion of a deity.

Maybe not. But you simply can't include a deity within the theory of evolution. A deity is a driving force, a guiding hand, an instigator, a formulator of goals. Evolution theory can't embrace any of these concepts (if it did, the theory is trashed). To say that God has a hand in evolution is to completely misunderstand evolutionary theory, which is entirely predicated on the explanation of a process without goals and replete with dead ends, extinctions and useless mutations (none of which represent "attempts"). Now we have lots of compelling evidence for evolution but we have none for God. So I know which camp I'm staying in. Absolutely!