Is Science the answer to questions that affect our lives, especially in the realm of religion?

no it is not the answer to questions that affect our lives

Science is a wonderful tool to inquire about our existence and experience in a structured and unbiased way. Because of this tool, we have a way to discover and document things that can be observed and experimented on, and that knowledge can be used to do things, and usually, to make our lives better.

However, acceptance of, and obedience to a Creator is not based on experimentation, but on love and loyalty to God. We perceive his existence by answered prayer, and by meditation on what he has made, and his right standards.

Also, if some people define religion based on science, and then requires that everyone listens to and accepts that definition, this is close to depriving a person from choice.

God wants us to choose to do his will because we have it in our heart, not because someone else has made a definition. Also, scientists practice science, and they are flawed like all humans. The issues related to religion have been known to overcome the required objectivity of science.

So, no, unless science deals directly with a subject that is unrelated to acceptance and obedience to God, scientists should not try to answer questions in the realm of religion.

Science can answer many questions that affect our lives. Without it we'd still be in the dark ages. Science also improves over time which means you have to compare what science has known relative to what nonscientists have known in the same period. You cannot compare what science knew back then to what science knows now and point out they were wrong on a few things. That only proves science *is* reliable, because it is self corrective and you are using science to argue against science.

Well, science is a process, not a monolith.

The work done by scientists, using that process, has immeasurably improved all of our lives. Many of us would not still be alive at all, without science. But, science itself is not responsible what some greedy people might occasionally do with it. The responsibility to better monitor and regulate what corporations do it a political matter, not a scientific one.

It is on the political level where those failures occurred.

"Science failed my generation on the topic of food and exercise the same way science failed my parents generation with cigarettes."

No, science did not fail, the issue was people did not have enough scientifically derived knowledge.

Science and the scientific method are not things or organizations, science is a method of evaluating facts.

Science is not in a struggle, not with ISIS, anti vaccine people, etc, it is civilization that is in a struggle with the uncivilized. Young Earthers, iSIS, the Taliban, Westboro Baptist, etc, is against knowledge, all knowledge including science.

Science is the best way we can understand the world around us. We're constantly making discoveries that change what we thought we knew, but I'd trust modern thinkers advancing the human race's common knowledge than anything telling me to ignore it and accept the world at face value.

Science didn't failed anyone with cigarettes....science has no means to fight deliberate massive false advertisement. Which is kind of what religions do....which is kind of what science doesn't and has no means to fight against. Since it doesn't exist to do that in the first place.