[Fester Chugabrew]

No. The false dichotomy resides with those who divorce the biblical texts from science, and who erect a barrier between the physical and metaphysical as if this somehow is more "scientific."

[Dimensio]

No.

You assume that an individual either derives claims regarding the workings of the universe from "biblical texts" or "their own reason". In so doing you omit the possibility of an individual deriving such claims from a religious text other than the "biblical texts". As such, you have created a false dichotomy.

The false dichotomy resides with those who divorce the biblical texts from science,

Why should the biblical texts -- and no other religious texts -- be "married" to science?