“Nothing is certain.”
Does two plus two equal four?
If nothing is certain, we can dispense with principles, absolutes, causality, knowledge, etc. ... and anything goes.
Of course I didn’t mean that in an absolutist sense. I meant that in regards to Scientific theory and postulation.
You have obfuscated by constructing a strawman argument.
In regards to agenda driven science, yes they have dispensed with principles, absolutes, casuality, knowledge, etc.
I stand by my original statement. Scientists don’t know how old the universe really is and there is no definitive way of knowing it.
It’s all a bunch of bullshit guesswork as are most theories, postulations and all the non method driven Science that is so common these days.