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"... or at least by knowledge (not belief)."

No, morality should guided by belief.
One should try to be wise enough to have beliefs that reflect wisdom. Knowledge is just the facts, knowledge doesn't *have to* include history. History is necessary for wisdom.
Morality has to do with human behavior and has to do with making a making better future and living a better present.
Science isn't really about humans- soft science perhaps, but hard science has to do with "worldly" matters. Things you can measure, things you can isolate and test, things that can be repeated and predicted. Mercy isn't measurable, nor is justice. Or happiness. Or regret. Nor human conduct in general.
If you think it is, give me a quantifiable number of who you are.

"Some difficult questions of personal morality and societal ethics can be informed by scientific knowledge."

Name one.

"Science should not DRIVE morality, nor vice versa. They are essentially different dimensions, like Real and Imaginary numbers..."

Moral people should drive science, and immoral people should removed or at least discouraged from it.

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