You can go to museums and check the fossils for yourself unless you are saying all of them are fabricated.
You can't seem to get it through your head that it isn't the existence of fossils that is the point. The point is the interpretation of where they came from and why they exist. The story about the fossils is the fiction, not the fossils themselves.
We should be very careful not to overstate our understanding of reality.
This is true. And here is the scientific clincher that every scientist, and yet almost no scientist, seems to apply to scientific stuff... cause and effect. What do I mean?
Everything that science considers in every way, is considered through a C&E. In fact, the greater the scientist, the more he considers C&E regarding whatever scientific endeavor he is working on. But...
Almost none of the scientists consider that their observing or other scientific operations are all done by C&E... C&E in themselves, working on their projects in the way that they do, C&E causing them to operate and act the way that they do, and C&E don to them so that they were essentially forced to consider things of the past that made their project into what it is today.
The reality is, that we know of, all of our mental and physical personal activities are set into motion by cause and effect. It is the greatest reality. Yet nobody talks about our so-called free will investigations of scientific things in the light that they really are... artificial free will, and therefore artificial understanding of what may or may not be reality, because they were set in play by C&E rather than freedom.
And when you don't consider that you are programmed by C&E to do scientific investigations, there is a whole greater aspect of knowledge that you are missing.