Why did the Catholic Church support the study of science? They wished to learn more about God.
They wanted to find a different way to worship.
They wanted to prove that miracles were true.
They hoped to disprove the work of other scientists

They hoped to disprove the work of other scientist.

Explanation:

Before and during the Scientific Revolution, the Roman Catholic Church was a powerful force. Before the birth and growth of science, everyone looked up to the Church and believed all Church teachings and beliefs. After the birth and growth of science, conflicts between science and the Church arose.

genetics is the study of how dna works, the methodologies defining the new recent technologies allow scientist to have a panoramic view of the entire dna landscape, especially how genomes interact with their environment, including off course, factors outside their organisms.

thus is very possible the existence of both scenarios, where populations of isolated individuals have different genetic traits, and share traits related to genetic mutation, due rats can easily travel overseas using human transport channels. so scientists could get a vast number of data, including human interaction, evolution of rodents, health development, spread of infections, development of new organisms, how genomes evolve in different environments and so on.