Science vs. "Science"

This may ruffle a few feathers, but I really don't care:

I'm really sick of popular media figures convincing everybody that Science is something other than what it is. Sick of the notion that Science is an infallible authority that answers all of our questions and makes our lives better.

Don't get me wrong. I adore Science. I think that investigating the fundamental behavior of the universe is a supremely important pursuit and that the knowledge we gain is of great use in improving our understanding and our station. I fully endorse theories of evolution and of the big bang and goodness knows whatever else plenty of foolish Christians have insisted on denying in the name of literalism.

I just recognize that Science is not final. Whatever we think we know about the universe is simply a current best guess. It's a set of plausible (likely, even) explanations based on observation of correlation and testing for causation. And none of it can ever be shown to be perfectly true. It's a system that rests on the principle of falsification -- advancements can be made almost exclusively by disproving previous best-guesses.

More than that, almost all of Science is simplification. The vast majority of natural interactions are chaotic -- meaning they cannot be represented in any sort of linear or closed form equation. We cannot observe or interact with the infinite, so we build models that are "good enough". We make substitutions and estimations. We build computer models that, between the necessity of discretization and the fallibility of floating point arithmetic, can only barely be trusted.

Science is not an answer to a question. It's a process by which we go about attempting to improve the answers we have. Science is not God. It is an attempt to reveal the work that God has done in creation in a way we can comprehend.