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>progress
increase in knowledge is not correlative to increase in the standard of living. Case in point, Radium.

>answers
Answers that are constantly updated are not answers. They are best guesses. Case in point, the status of Pluto.

>philosophy is nothing but mental masturbation

Science cannot tell you how to face death. Math cannot fix a broken marriage. Neither even begin to grapple with the tragedy of being.

The practitioners of science usually begin from a presumption of ignorance or uncertainty. I don't think you are any kind of scientist.

>philosophy is cope
Look at you, using an unproven hypothesis like an axiom. If you were a student of the sciences you wouldn't; it is bad science. If you were a student of philosophy you still wouldn't; it is bad rhetoric. I propose it is the fault of neither science or philosophy; you are just a bad student.