Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism

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I guess the main sciences I'm concerned about are the two that have been observed to be highly susceptible to environmental influence, and that we still know very little about, epigenetics and quantum physics. With these sciences it seems it could be very negligent to form opinion without considering all potential variables including "dark matter" and "The Force"

Yes, but if you start considering undetectable and apparently irrelevant influences on the basis that they might be having an effect we aren't seeing, where do you stop? For example, why are you just considering dark matter? What about chi, or spirit energy, or literally the Force? Once you've lowered the bar of minimum evidence for consideration to "none at all," then you have no reason for dismissing every other thing ever.

Furthermore, what do you propose we do about these supposed influences that we can't detect, and even if we could, how do we isolate our experiments from them? And if we could do that, should we? If you're right, and epigenetics is a thing that can be influenced by dark matter, then any experiment that would provide a realistic model of epigenetic behavior in the real world would include dark matter, as that's how the natural world has been developing for the entirety of biological history. The moment you isolate that variable, if it's as common as you claim, you remove a level of accuracy from the experimental result.

There's like five layers of reasons why it's pointless to wonder about dark matter in our experiments right now, but in the end you've kinda got two choices anyway: either you work with what you can control and detect right now and get some kind of data to work with, or you sit paralyzed and cowed by all the variables that might maybe be out there, and get nothing done.

Only the former path has any demonstrable history of reliable results, though.