Interesting views - seems to be nothing worth arguing but would point out that you open with a comment about the function of science. All well and good, if you are conducting a rigorous scientific experiment, go ahead and define terms and evidence any way you wish - it is your science. But, this discussion hs not been about science - it has been about faith. My experienced observations have been made in that light.
As I said in another post earlier in this thread, the scientism of modernity gave way to post modernity because societally we all know on a very deep level that science cannot explain some of the central phenomena that make us human.
Scientism is just another myth which seeks to help us understand the world in which we dwell. It fit a time and place and lead to much progress by any objective standard, but has collapsed under the weight heaped upon it by many who claim to have been its most zealous adherents.
Remember science started, imperfectly as it was, to show that the laws of nature are predictable because their author was equally so. Separated from that foundational presupposition and asked to support explanations for what should be rather than simply the processes that brought about what is, it collapses.
