Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism

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Reality being real cannot be proven by the scientific method, we either trust that or we don't. Science tells us sense receptors respond to vibrations and give us an experience. It really doesn't clarify anything about what "is". We have to take it as a given to move on with trying to understand everything else.

Reality as in a person's experiences are real. Distinguishing between an subjective or objective experience--or reality--however, is what the scientific method attempts to establish and has proven itself quite adept at doing so. If I hallucinate and see what I take to be the Virgin Mary blowing me kisses, that is a very real experience for me, in a subjective sense, but not something from which we can draw a particular conclusion about objective reality other than what the sciences have already discovered in terms of mental processes.

Thought experiment- We're in the "Matrix". We're doing experiments and forming opinions based on the outcomes. Would our conclusions be considered observations of subjective or objective reality?

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Well, in this case, when it's being relied upon to confirm general relativity which is kind of important to our understanding of physics and the evolution of the universe. Also, astrophysicists are claiming "dark stuff" is going around us and through us all the time. They claim that "dark matter" has left "signs of passage" by bumping head on to the atomic nucleus of ordinary matter.

All of this I personally deem worthy of considering it a variable.

But what indication do you have that this stuff is acting as a variable in any given experiment? Because if you don't have that, what you've got is an assumption without evidence. Not very scientific.

Is the fact that it supposedly makes up a majority of all that is (96%) not enough to assume that is should be considered a variable? Seems sort of naive.