I do not accept the factual basis of my friends' beliefs, but I appreciate and respect how meaningful those beliefs and practices are to my friends' lives. We're not disagreeing. Science should take a concrete, objective approach, and spirituality an abstract, subjective approach. You're misreading me on several levels, which I suppose is due to the brevity of my statements. First of all, I object to the equation of the scientific worldview with atheism.
Many scientists are religious.
And I was not by any means saying that people who embrace science have no morality. I was never implying that. That's basically what I was saying above. And this is why science is better for dealing with objective matters while religion and other ideologies should stick to the purely subjective. I'm typing in a tiny little box where it's awkward to go back and edit.