The need to bring to mind that there is a diversity of perspectives is, of course, relevant, but holding rationality and irrationality as equally feasible is ludicrous. A common, for lack of a better word, question is asking whether or not the blues and reds we see are the same blues and reds others see. I think that's valid, a mindteaser like that can bring into light how very limited our perception is. With limited perception, another question that, albeit tangentially, might be mentioned here might be the question of whether or not we exist. I suppose, for the purpose of science and reason, we must assume that reality is real. This is necessary for function. Within this framework of assuming that reality is real, the scientific method is a tool for trying to ascertain the objective functions of this world we live in. That is all it is. A tool, a method. Science is not something to be believed in, it is to be used, and for us in reality it works. Science doesn't seek the truth, it is not a religion.
Science is not the opposite of religion, either, and you keep contrasting it with it. Religion versus science. This also works as an analogue for your contrasts between Atheism, Theism and Agnosticism. Atheism is not the opposite of Agnosticism, nor is it even on a different side of the fence. There is no fence between Theism and Agnosticism, or Atheism and Agnosticism. Atheism and Theism deal with belief, Agnosticism (and Gnosticism) deal with knowledge. Agnostics think that details of the divine are unknowable, or unknown. This has nothing to do with belief.
An Atheist could be Gnostic (notice the lack of the prefix a-) or Agnostic. A Gnostic Atheist would be one who KNOWS there is no divinity, and DOES NOT BELIEVE in it. An Agnostic Atheist would NOT BELIEVE , but also confess that he does not know, perhaps because he thinks that details regarding something as vague and distant as God are unreachable ("God is the universe" "God is outside space and time"). A Gnostic Theist, on the other hand, would KNOW there is a God and BELIEVE it. An Agnostic Theist would NOT KNOW and STILL BELIEVE.
You unnecessarily try to polarise the situation and place yourself at the middle, on a fence, thinking yourself superior on your golden path. This is a patent fallacy. Open-mindedness has never been rejected by the scientific method. Rational people will want a reason to believe, and this is not being close-minded.
