i don't think in abandoning it, denying that there is an objective reality, we're just abandoning our quest towards thinking are quixotic idea. Yes, if you want to know what i think, i have three words written by that paragraph, fak off the rails. Im yet can we not account for both science's existence and its success in terms of evolution? What success? Success about? What? And he earlier, he says, the developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings,. A process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature.