There was a time when nuclear fission could not even have been dreamed of. Science had to make an awful lot of progress before the concept was even possible, much less any attempt to determine if the concept was valid.
We know today that nuclear fission is not only possible, but can be put to practical use, and in fact is generating the electricity powering this computer I am writing this on.
Though once never guessed, and later greatly doubted, we now know it is a fact, nuclear fission is possible.
This is an absolute fact. It is not suddenly going to become untrue, it is no true only on certain days, it is not true only if someone believes hard enough. It is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, whether anyone believes it or not.
Now I have no idea why you want so badly to believe we cannot know the truth, not only about scientific matters, but many others as well, but that wish is not going to be fulfilled. Maybe you really cannot know anything for sure, but I assure you, the rest of us can.
blind faith in science has every bit of potential as has blind religious faith to cause harm.
I agree that blind faith in anything is dangerous. It is not the object of the faith that is the problem, however. It is credulity itself. Quackery, junk-science, and almost every scam and con going passes itself off as "science" or "philosohy" or "medicine." It is not legitimate science or philsophy or medicine that is the problem, it is people's superstitious "faith" in those things they believe they have no need to understand.
Hank
That is the nature of science and one of many reasons why we should not make science our new "god". I stole that from Einstein .... "We should take care not to make the intellect our god
Einstein wrote often of faith, spirituality and the importance of mystery. Here are some more:
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men." ___ A. Einstein
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ___ A.Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." ___ A. Einstein