At least officially, science is an empirical method.  Its empricism, though essential in its place, restricts itself by definition to ways of knowing that are infinitely too crude to adequately address the question, "How do I live with meaning and authenticity?"  The findings of science must inform but can never give or be the final answer.  For me, as for the Modernist leader Harry Fosdick earlier in thei century, it is something of an embarrassment that our society has "sometimes gotten so low that we talked as though thte highest compliment that could be paid to God was that a few scientists believed in Him."

-Philip L. Barlow, "The Uniquely True Church" (pg 244) A Thoughtful Faith