Originally Posted by Ken G

It was not my intent to lampoon anything anyone said, merely to point out that every era of science, throughout the ages, has always characterized its current best theory as the correct description of what the universe is really doing. So we clearly have two possibilities here: 1) it's actually true this time, with GR, say, or 2) it isn't true this time either, so the fact that many people are happy to imagine that GR is what the universe is "really doing" can then be viewed as a kind of problem worth commenting on.