I agree. But I think this. If belief in a theory requires the creation of new mental gymnastics to support it, then that theory has left the scientific realm.
What’s kind of interesting to me too, though, is observing the larger trends in thinking. Chemistry and alchemy were once branches of the same tree, so to speak.
So too - in a sense - with physics and metaphysics.
You’d enjoy this article/thread. I have.
All physics, as well as everything else we believe, is predicated on metaphysical presuppositions.