As Adam Frank sees it:

Without doubt! By allowing us to the see the world more clearly on its own terms, it helps us find our place in the web of life and the grand architecture of creation.
To miss this point is to turn your back on one the few fulcrums humanity has to lift us to a greater vision of compassion and wholeness. To miss this is to have willfully developed a tin ear to the music of the spheres.
But, make no mistake: Science is not the sole means to hear this music. It can be corrupted and used for all kinds of purposes that one might hope to avoid. Science or reason alone will not serve our great need. We humans are complex and multi-faceted. We have many paths to inspiration. Who would deny the power of Jesus’ message of forgiveness, the Buddha’s vision of liberation, Gandhi’s example of compassion, or Martin Luther King’s brave defense of human dignity? There are many routes to wisdom and as we add another three billion people to the planet in the next few decades we are damn sure going to need them all.