Ch. 1: What is reality? What is magic?

[Robert Tulip]

you want badly to claim absolute Truth, even at the expense of honesty.

You want badly for someone to claim absolute Truth for science. Can you even find a single person in history to actually argue against? Congratulations for the ultimate strawman.

Try the Wikipedia article on Science.

The belief that all observers share a common reality is known as realism. It can be contrasted with anti-realism, the belief that there is no valid concept of absolute truth such that things that are true for one observer are true for all observers.

This common sense use of absolute truth just means we have a shared reality. It does not mean we claim to know everything. Science is based on the absolute truth of the existence of nature. If you say there is no absolute truth, you disagree with scientific realism.

[Dexter]

Try the Wikipedia article on Science.

The belief that all observers share a common reality is known as realism. It can be contrasted with anti-realism, the belief that there is no valid concept of absolute truth such that things that are true for one observer are true for all observers.

This common sense use of absolute truth just means we have a shared reality. It does not mean we claim to know everything. Science is based on the absolute truth of the existence of nature. If you say there is no absolute truth, you disagree with scientific realism.

Yes, and as the vast majority of people probably are, I can be a realist and also acknowledge that current scientific theories are not absolute truth.