>>11077976Of course it is perfectly possible to imagine intelligent creatures on another planet with a different scientific history that comes up with a completely different set of theories that also seem to survive tests.
Belief in science rests upon the assumption that human intuition somehow stumbled upon true claims about the universe that cannot be disproven by experiments and that there exists no possible other alternatives that would survive an equal amount of rigour.
But it feels like it is true. And that is what we must base it on. The philosopher David Hume showed that it is logically irrational to believe in causal effects (this is called "the problem of induction") because you have to assume causal effects exist to prove that causal effects exist. Any argument that shows that causal effects exist has to assume it as one of the premises. So you can never know logically for certain anything. But it feels right to our animal instincts.
