Come on Amos, you're scaring me: I hear a theramin soundtrack rading your threads.
As for science, anyone who thinks it is pure and objective is nuts. (Or did I overstate that?) When I was at the University of Wisconsin, I worked in the Primate Laboratory there. It was, and still is the leading research facility for Animal Pyschology. When I was there, I saw such blatant predetermination of results that it cast doubt on everything they were doing at that time. The scientific "conclusions" that resulted from some experiments could have bee written before the government funding. There used to be, and perhaps still is, and annual award for the most ridiculous, unneccesary governement funded research. The applications to human psychology or medicine were very far fetched. One I remember was a very heavily funded project to try to determine why penguin's feet don't get cold. I can see it now... "Penguin" boots now on sale at WalMart.
And of course, the commercial potential of scientific research is integral to much of it. All the research on alternate energy to replace our dependence on oil is just an oil stain on the road of progress.
I don't find intellectual activity and faith to be mutual exclusive. We were given a mind to use, just as I believe we were given a deep-seated conscience and awareness of something greater than ourselves.
Most of all, you can adapt scientific discoveries to your own, pre-conceived beliefs, like everything else. I read repeatedly that more and more scientists are becoming convinved that there is a God. I wonder who conducts the poll? Personally, I'd consider that great news, but I have no reason to believe that it's true, and it would have no effect on my beliefs. Science will never prove the existence (or the lack of) God.
Back when I was in graduate school, a friend of mine was very impressed that I had discovered a new speciaes of fossil snail. Whoopdeedo! He believed that adding that one new bit of knowledge was of far greater value than a lifetime of healing people that a physician would do. And he was dead serious about it.