Science is not supposed to be an object of faith

No it's absolutely not, I agree. But people pitch it as such, as if 'belief' and 'faith' draw a line in the sand. In this instance, I would say 'belief' is 'accept as truth', and even that gets fuzzy as people tend to now see story and emotional experience as also a kind of truth.

Science is extremely powerful at measuring mechanisms. It is far weaker at answering questions of meaning, value, consciousness, beauty, purpose, or moral direction.

Yes. And this current world seems to expect us to outline where we stand on those issues, constantly, and even with tested, measured outcomes, we are expected to also have a 'feeling' about this, to back up 'beliefs', if this makes sense. Science does get political, even if we do not wish it to be.

It can answer questions about those things, however, disassembling the why we, for example, experience prejudice (both neg/pos) or other biological imperatives we accept as a greater truth or moral imperative.