At The University we studied some texts which were over 2000 years old - so I'd guess your comment is not late in any way =) There hardly is "best before" date to philosophy.

Ah, cosmic radiation - well, why not. To me the main point seems to be this:
Even if we restrict us to strictly empirical scientific findings, we can't rule out all kinds of strange and miraculous phenomenons going on in the conscious experience and life in general. The modern science has only mapped that much of the known universe, and sure there are a lot more miracles still to be discovered.

So, in this sense, personally I find the material world as miraculous, majestetic, great and awesome. All the sense of mystery and dignity is still there, although I don't believe in any supernatural non-scientific layers of existence. (But I don't rule out that there might be layers of existence currently unknown to human science - and someday we might find things which make us to re-write a lot of scientific theories. We never know. That is the nature of scientific thinking; non-dogmatism.)