Can Science Answer Moral Questions?

Science as a way of knowing is inclined to believe in reason rather than faith, this implies that science is a way in which logic states every reason for our existence and (in general) how everything works in our plane of existence.

Both reason and logic are what defines the scientific method but science also needs other ways of knowing in order to learn certain truths about our world such as our senses, as scientists conclude truths from experiments and they certainly need to see, touch, feel, hear and (sometimes) taste in order to get raw data and consequently implement reasons and thesis of how everything around us works. Therefore, science doesn't preach morality but it rather defies it, as science will always need some sort of justification in order to validate its acts and these justifications have to be based purely on logic or else it won't be even considered in the scientific world.

The advantages that this way of knowing has towards our world is that it actually benefits us directly as science leads the way to more comfortabilities and apparent truths that in the past may have seemed as impossible, although one major problem with science is the fact that it is cold inside and unable to understand some ideas implemented by both faith and morality.

So now we may ask ourselves, can science answer moral questions? Well, since science and morality have always been distant from each other, we might tend to believe that science is just purely based on logic and therefore it cannot motivate us to act in any way or even reach into our morality, but based on a TED talk video me (and my class) saw, science may reach into morality under certain areas. These areas are based on facts and values such as health issues in which science and (good) morality do agree that saving a human life is required either for our continuous species existence or because we feel morally obliged to save lives.

I also believe that science may answer moral questions under certain areas but it will always have its limit under morality as it is unable to answer questions that are required for the inquirer to learn and specifically analyze.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/280/5367/1200.full