Science seems to have the answers. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here?

Answers to what?

To questions. Science seems to have the best method of actually finding answers to questions.

Which questions?

All questions.

I'd say that it currently provides the most effective framework to answering questions about the natural world.

That *should be* very different from belief, though.

How is answering questions very different from belief? You believe in the answers - don't you? Is belief purely an emotional response? Said who?

I have some knowledge of the range, likelihood, and accuracy of my scientific understanding - it is an integral part of the scientific analysis of the data.

That is very different than belief, which by and large has no awareness nor attempts to gain awareness of it's own limitations.

How is answering questions very different from belief? You believe in the answers - don't you? Is belief purely an emotional response? Said who?

Have you ever talked to someone who believed we never went to the moon or that 9/11 bldg 7 was pulled down or that Bigfoot exists or...
You give them answers but they still don't believe. and vice-versa.

Belief then has no margin of error? What is the margin of error of Science itself, than, if it is not a belief system?

The margin of error is dependent on the study at hand. What is the sample size of the studied group, the variation within the resultant dataset, and the number of experimental repetitions?

This is all well defined in the scientific method - beyond just coming up with a guess that seems to work, and then "believing" in it, there is a set of agreed to steps which helps reduce the effect of individual bias on the analysis of results.

You could possibly argue that reliance on the *method* and *philosophy* requires a certain amount of belief, but of course even that can be statistically shown to be historically more useful and accurate than belief by itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science