Originally Posted by JavaBlack

I don't think so. It gives us a better understanding of how to maximize good and minimize evil.
Keep in mind that few if any who ever study this stuff come to the conclusion that it's pointless to keep on going. Contrary to that, most are humanists.

Life still is what it is. I find it comforting that our nature sides with morality as long as the conditions allow for it... at least for most people. I'd worry if we were dependent on religion to stay good. In fact I used to worry about that.

Strangely enough the anomie that came with this horror about humans being "meaningless protoplasm"... well it was deepest only when I was still bitter over losing faith. There's a middle ground where religion seems to have betrayed you but science seems hollow.
But after a while it becomes just that religion wasn't right for me and science is interesting.

I don't see life as having less value. Far from it. Now I enjoy my own life more (consider what this means in terms of empathy) and I see more hope to alleviate the suffering of others without needing to rely on invisible forces that I can never quite get myself to believe in.
Life is intrinsically valuable... not because of science or religion... but because we're alive. It's a bias. But just understanding a bias doesn't make it any less real for you.
Unless one is conditioned to be selfish as hell or to hate others (or is born that way- some people are psychopaths), one can't help but to see value in life... with or without God.