Hello /lit/. Im often dragged into conversations about the existance

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Hello /lit/.

Im often dragged into conversations about the existance of absolute truth. Now i enjoy philosophy but Im still stuck with the greeks and early christians, so apart from st Augustine and the presocratics i havent had much interaction with relativist.

The argument being thrown around in the conversations is that we can infer that an objective reality exists by the existance of bodies and their position and interaction in space-time (the interaction between two particles like attraction or repulsion can be interpreted by us but it doesnt change the outcome). The next argument is about truth, us not being able to grasph the truth doesn't mean it doesn't exists, for example we know the heliocentric system is more "true" than a geocentric system or that our rocket science has some elements of truth or it wouldnt work.

Both would imply that there exists an objective reality, in which lies the absolute truth, no matter the amounts of subjective veils there are between us and it.

I can't say I agree with the claims, since the word absolute in absolute truth kinda implies that its always true, and I personally don't think absolutes can exist wothout God, which is what their argument is. I'd enjoy hearing your opinions and arguments pro and contra.