"But I wouldn't trust science as far as I could throw Einstein. Why is it so important anyway? Can't people just appreciate something without having to dissect it, and drain the mystery from it?"
You seem to assume that science and mystery cannot co-exist. That is not true, especially not at the moment. The new breed of scientist, and indeed modern thinker, accepts that they will never know all the answers. You simply cannot operate at the highest level in any scientific field if you don't accept that you won't know some of the answers. But they're interested, so they'll have a crack at finding something out anyway. This may seem pointless, but I'll explain why it isn't.
One of my classmates, in RE, when we were asked what our view of our point of life, said jokingly "My point in life is to find my point in life". I believe this is exactly right. It doesn't matter if you know you will not succeed in finding these answers, somewhere deep down. What matters is if your interested or not. Because if your interested, and if you feel that it means something towards the point of your life, you will study it, dissect it, whatever wording you choose. This is even the same for those who are believers. They say they've found their point in life, and yet you still get religious scholars, clergy, people who dedicate their entire lives to find meaning in their holy book. Deep down, they know they're not going to get anything really useful for it. But it's their point in life. Why not investigate it? What have you got to lose?
Because, really, when we stop and think, if we dare, and think long enough, we'll find the real answer: There is no point to life. This possibility, in the search for a point, rarely occurs to us. Life wasn't created, or didn't evolve, for a point. It's our job to make our point in life up. Whatever it is. Because, what would you rather do: life a life that you decide is worthwhile, or live a life with no point?
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