That's a fair criticism of the philosophical and scientific endeavour. It's roughly the point of existentialism and of Humean skepticism, although you might be taking it from Christian conservatism.

In effect, you think rational understanding of the wider world is futile, despite all the modern progress, and you conclude that we should default to our social instinct. Yet we also have an instinct to use reason to figure things out. So our instincts are often in conflict (because we evolved naturally and aren't the products of a divine intelligence). And you arbitrarily side with one instinct over the other.