re: Science
That science does not destroy one's appreciation or relationship to the infinite, it enhances it.
Yes, science does send an interesting kind of message: "there's a lot left we don't understand yet" (we know this and therefore want to seek, satisfy our curiosity). And it puts us into a small remote place in time and space, but because we realize our limits, it makes us different from other living beings.
On june 8th 2002, early afternoon, at Delft (Holland) I shook hands with a man who has stepped on another world and who's fingerprints and footprints should last millions of years, on the Moon.
That was my real deliberate experience with near eternity. (And almost 30 years had passed between his prints on the Moon and our meeting).
Raoul