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After hearing President Obama's inaugural speech many scientist are joyous and excited over the phrase "restore science to its rightful place".  Check out the New York Times articles on the scientist reactions and an essay on science: Scientists Welcome Obama's Words and Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy.

The latter article discusses the relationship between science, religion, and ethics.

The knock on science from its cultural and religious critics is that it is arrogant and materialistic. It tells us wondrous things about nature and how to manipulate it, but not what we should do with this knowledge and power. The Big Bang doesn’t tell us how to live, or whether God loves us, or whether there is any God at all. It provides scant counsel on same-sex marriage or eating meat. It is silent on the desirability of mutual assured destruction as a strategy for deterring nuclear war.