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We don't have perfect knowledge of the system we're modelling, of course the model falls short of reality.
I see it as the manifestation of Terence McKenna's idea of model theism. We create a model of the world and then worship it as a god.
Sounds like the climate change denial equivalent of the "atheism is a religion" nonsense that the stupidest Christian apologists keep spewing..