I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H- bomb lurking about. The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.
Many people think reality is prosaic.
We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood.