Your argument is that unless one is omniscient and know everything with absolute certainty, one cannot know anything at all with any certainty, and therefore the models of science are no more or less valid than the models of religion.
This is about as banal and useless a claim as one can imagine. The model of science is an interpretation of data based on observation and experimentation, with objectively verifiable results. The model of religion is literally just vibes. The rain happens because the man in the sky is angry.
If you want to regress further into the solipsist trap and retort that no one can prove objective reality even exists then fine. At some point, to have a conversation, conversants must accept even simply for the sake of argument some minimal set of common axioms. Reality exists. Objective reality exists. Objective reality operates according to understandable rules. Science creates models which more correctly describe the nature of reality than religion.
If you can't even get that far then I don't know what to tell you. Go talk to the machine elves living in your walls or something.
All we have is maps, and all maps are bad. Some maps are useful for some purposes, others for others. A map that helps us go to the moon may not be the best map for the purposes of, say, mental well-being, living in harmony, things like that.
> Reality exists. Objective reality exists.
Remember, the only information about that reality is supplied via/by our mind. Our mind also suggests choices about what to measure, what experiments to hold, and more generally what sort of maps to create. It is all subjective from the ground up.
> Science creates models which more correctly describe the nature of reality than religion.
Science makes testable predictions and creates models which help make further testable predictions. Those models do not “describe the nature of reality”. If you think natural sciences make statements of absolute truth, you are mistaking science for religion.
This is about as banal and useless a claim as one can imagine. The model of science is an interpretation of data based on observation and experimentation, with objectively verifiable results. The model of religion is literally just vibes. The rain happens because the man in the sky is angry.
If you want to regress further into the solipsist trap and retort that no one can prove objective reality even exists then fine. At some point, to have a conversation, conversants must accept even simply for the sake of argument some minimal set of common axioms. Reality exists. Objective reality exists. Objective reality operates according to understandable rules. Science creates models which more correctly describe the nature of reality than religion.
If you can't even get that far then I don't know what to tell you. Go talk to the machine elves living in your walls or something.