Is Science a Natural Philosophy?

Modern science, during the first half of his 400 year career, was called natural philosophy. But scientists pretend that their theories are directly describing reality when we don't know a pysision not. So it's all wrong. The thing is, science rests upon the philosophy of science,. It is special in that it is, at its core, empirical. It tests its ideas against reality. We need to be internally consistent and logical but at its corts about testing against reality.