If you think there are no scientists who believe they are getting closer and closer to outlining what nature fundamentally, truly looks like, then you are sadly mistaking. Philosophy-savvy scientists may even deny doing so, but their day-to-day conversation and casual remarks tell another story. Most scientists definitely believe there is a single absolute unshifting reality below it all and they are outlining it.

Edit: and I should add that most non-scientists also believe the same thing. In fact, I often catch myself depending on that hypothesis, even though I thoroughly believe it is wrong.

> Philosophy-savvy scientists may even deny doing so, but their day-to-day conversation and casual remarks tell another story. Most scientists definitely believe there is a single absolute unshifting reality below it all and they are outlining it.

I find that actually quite sad. From a man who actually died for his "scientific" convictions (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#On_the_Infinite_...):

> It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.

I think we can easily extrapolate an "infinity of worlds" to an "infinity of Universes/realities", or at least we can think about extrapolating, that's what philosophy was the first to do. Actually, I think Giordano Bruno would be seen as a lunatic by most of today's scientists, which I find it even more sad.

Your anecdotes aside, it's still a strawman.

It's not a straw man, it's hyperbole. What I mean to suggest is not that people actually believe that any other form of knowledge is completely untrue. It's a matter of the relative importance of science compared to other ways of knowing. Scientific medicine vs. other traditions is a great example. Many people seem to have that attitude that if something has not be scientifically shown to be effective, then it cannot be effective, thus implying that scientific medicine is "the one truth" about healing.

A strawman of who exactly? Of the Christian scientists that believe in one true world as created by God? Of the Platonist scientists that believe in the one true essence of things? Of the reductionist scientists, that believe everything is reducible to the fundamental properties of the fundamental particles? Or of the small minority of scientists that do without a belief in one true underlying reality?

Do you actually know any scientists, as you so pointedly asked someone else?