Trooperman said:

Fair enough. I believe there is truth and that science attempts to explain the environment we find around us, but can never address the question: why?

Actually, I think that science has answered a TON of "why's". Or at least has plausible theories for lots of them. That's what science strives to do.

For instance, why do the wandering stars have strange looping paths? It was scientists willing to risk getting their heads getting chopped off by religious leaders, in answering that question by theorizing that they weren't revolving around us, but that they (and we) were revolving around the sun.

Of course, there are a few questions that one could argue that religion attempts to answer, for which science doesn't have a theory. That's fine, but in those cases I simply don't see any reason to believe their hypotheses, which are based on faith rather than on rigor.