The Inner Monologue

Oh, the classic refrain of the armchair philosopher, the conspiracy theorist, the mystic, and the guy who just really wants his pet pseudoscience to be taken seriously: “Science doesn’t have all the answers!”

Well, no kidding. Science has never claimed to have all the answers—that’s kind of the whole point. It’s a process, not a dogma. It builds models that work well enough to predict reality, refine them when new data comes in, and occasionally tosses them out when something better comes along.

But here’s the thing: Just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean we know nothing.

We don’t know every single detail about gravity, but we know enough to land probes on Mars. We don’t fully understand consciousness, but we’ve mapped enough of the brain to treat diseases, create AI, and know that “energy healing” is just a fancy way of saying “placebo effect.”

Yet, somehow, the fact that science hasn’t yet explained every single mystery of the universe is taken as an open invitation to insert whatever pet theory someone prefers—ghosts, ancient aliens, chakras, you name it. “Your science can’t explain this one weird thing, so clearly my completely unfounded belief is just as valid!”

No. Just… no.

Here’s why: Science explains 99.9% of observable reality pretty damn well. Your metaphysics only shows up for the 0.1% we haven’t fully mapped yet—and even then, it doesn’t explain anything. It just gestures mysteriously at the gap and says, “See? Magic must live here!”

Newtonian physics got updated by Einstein, but guess what? We still use Newton’s equations for most everyday things because they work. The model wasn’t wrong—it was incomplete. That’s how knowledge grows.

Meanwhile, your “alternative explanation” doesn’t predict, doesn’t test, doesn’t refine—it just sits there, smugly saying, “You can’t prove I’m not real!”

Well, I can’t prove that invisible unicorns aren’t controlling the stock market either, but until they start showing up in the data, I’m gonna stick with the models that actually work.

So yes, science is imperfect. It’s messy. It changes. But that’s not a weakness—it’s the whole damn point. And until your metaphysics can do even half of what science does, maybe stop pretending they’re in the same league.

Just a thought.