First, it is unscientific to accept any theory as fact. A fundamental rule of the scientific method is fallibilism, which recognizes that all knowledge we have is only the closest approximation to the truth that we've found up to now.

A great example of the need for this is uniformitarianism. What the scientists can reasonably say is that what they SEE of hydrogen throughout the universe APPEARS to be the same. Or whatever other metric they attempt to test. But they cannot rule out physics changing in ways that would not be observable in this fashion.

When a supposed scientist claims that one must accept theory X as fact in order for science to be useful, he is committing multiple fallacies.

The most important is that feeling the need for something doesn't make it so. If physics has changed, then it has changed, and the inconvenience of this for scientists is their own problem. Refusing to consider this simply cripples scientific endeavor that much more.

Galileo's father, Vencenzio, was a mathematician as well as a musician. He is the one who taught Galileo until the age of ten. After that, the family moved to Florence, where Galileo attended a monastery where he learned Latin and Greek. He also studied religion and music.