[Leonis]

This is a good thread. Lots of good posts.
I'd like to add on the morals in science issue, that unfortunately, IMO, science is almosts exclusively driven by morals, not some pure search for absolute knowledge.
The morals? Greed, $Hunger, Power, Competition, and so on.

E.g: The pharmacutical(sp?) companies will often push less effective drug treatments on doctors and patients, in the process falsifying research outcomes to support them. The reason being that they are simply more expensive than more effective ones.
- The people who have attempted to expose this have been threatened by said drug companies.

Most scientific R & D these days is profit and return based. In a Machiavellian way, scientists must play to the dollars in order to keep being scientists.

Isn't it also morals that define ethics? If morals have no place in science, is it ok for a doctor kill a healthy human who matches my specifications if I need an organ?

I think that religion, science, politics, morals, society and hordes of other issues are all inter-related and rely upon each other, historically and currently.