There can be numerous models of the real world, table of 13 each dependent on math, however they can't all be correct.
Cosmology is a valid example.
The expression "yet the science works" signifies literally nothing.
Since math predicts the chance of some sort of design and substance, or some law, relationship or rule that the Cosmos may have, doesn't of need make it so.
A perfect representation where the math worked however the Cosmos didn't come for the ride was the specially appointed heaping on those epicycles upon epicycles to clarify the movement of the planets.
It at last got so clumsy that the child was tossed out with the bathwater and another infant considered, that being that the Earth was simply one more planet and not at the focal point of life, the Universe and everything.