I believe there's a real world outside my skull which doesn't necessarily care about what's going on inside my skull, and the way to learn about the real world is essentially the scientific method (or an OODA loop) - observe, reason, act, repeat

If you have a Thomistic view of faith, perhaps you basically agree. Perhaps you think God's laws in nature are regular and discoverable.

If you have an Augustine view probably you disagree.

But that same dichotomy exists in pagan form (Aristotle v Plato) or atheistically (Rand v Kant)

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Re: God, I independently (with something like the force of a revelation) came to the same conclusion as Spinoza. A monotheistic God, all-present, all-powerful, is reality itself.