Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[bennyboy]

Ask for science, you will get a necessarily materialist something, everytime, about everything.  Why do you think that people who believe in the immaterial bunch their panties up over science in the first place?  Because it doesn't -contain- any of that, it doesn't reference any of that, and it doesn't even make the assumption.  What else do -you- expect to get from science, other than a materialist explanation?

So. . . Newton wasn't a scientist? All the faithful Christian scientists weren't scientists? No, you have it wrong. Science is the study of an objectively shared reality, but it does not insist on a material monism, nor does it demonstrate one. It is people like you who insist on a 1:1 parity, as though science and materialism are the same thing. They are not.

Sure, you can dig up dictionaries or modern science books that describe things that way. But in actual practice, you'll have a pretty hard time finding a scientist who will make positive assertions about the ultimate nature of reality, and be willing to support those assertions scientifically.