Would a society which possesses knowledge of all aspects of science from the time of early culture likely still form religions?

Consider an advanced species unlocks all of the curiosities of science in our universe. They spend millions of years learning every fact, every mechanism of physics, and develop a perfect "Theory of Everything" - except they're able to test it so conclusively that they know it to be fact. Regardless of whether it could be done, let's consider a universe similar to our own, where this happens.

Then this civilization chooses to share this knowledge with planets early in the development of intelligent life.

• They interact with the intelligent species carefully, so as to equip it with their spoken language.

• This knowledge of physics is stored on a device that this species can easily use.

• Included are guides which explain more complex words and language usage so that the species can learn to understand more and more as it becomes capable.

• The species passes down what they were taught about how to read the information from the device.

Most importantly:

• The device explains how they received it and how their universe came to be (a proven version of the big bang theory) so as to remove any question of how they received this information or how they came to exist.

Would this primitive species likely evolve devoid of religion, having no mysteries to explain, or would there be some motivation for the development of religion anyway?

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