This is a strong current in our denomination these days. Thinkers latched onto this new scientific mind-set, and hailed the new day of reason and intelligence. But by the 20th century, the clear scientific answers didn't seem so clear anymore. Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics showed that reality isn't quite real, after all. If time slows down and space bends and dimensions compress, our tangible world must be partly an illusion.
Nobody knows what they really are.
Also, relativistic thinking spread rapidly in the social sciences. Enlightenment thinking was called modern. The new relativistic thinking is called postmodern. It says scientific facts aren't nearly as knowable as we think they are. There's some validity to this approach.