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Perhaps science is trustworthy because it attempts to limit or eliminate prior assumptions about anything
That’s pretty much a basic of any rational attempt to get at the truth. Assumptions can easily be wrong - if they had strong support from evidence or reasoning they wouldn’t be assumptions.
Presuppositionalists often claim that there can be no neutrality. If you don’t assume that God exists then you are assuming that God does not exist. The corollary of that is that God’s existence can’t be supported by evidence or rational argument. Though I doubt that they understand that. Past encounters with presuppositionalists show that they rely on assumptions and uncritically belief in what their idols tell them - but they don’t really understand what they are saying.
See an old discussion with a Presuppositionalist starting here
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