[Alter Kaker]

Reading comprehension may not be your forté.

There is a difference between saying that some scientific questions have been settled and saying that all scientific questions have been settled. The germ theory of disease has been settled for instance. As has the existence of gravity, the heliocentric model and the existence of evolution.

There's plenty of stuff we still don't know, but pretending that we know nothing is idiotic.

[microgood]

There is a difference between saying that some scientific questions have been settled and saying that all scientific questions have been settled.

Well, look at how long science theory about gravity was "settled" until Einstein came along? Maybe in a couple hundred the notions of bacteria and viruses will be considered as primitive as its predecessor.

Science has never been about "truth" and is never "settled", because it is about modeling the world around in ways that are useful and productive. As we learn more, the models change. Anyone who claims the science of some topic is settled is not a scientist, but a lawyer or politician.