All science is materialistic

[Anomalocaris]

Putting aside the fear factor, someone who's strongly physicalist might still say it must be aliens using super advanced technology to manipulate us, because to them that will always be more plausible than truly supernatural (non-physical) beings. I think for many, the core of their worldview assumes things like physicalism and they use that to judge whether some hypothesis/theory/view is falsifiable or not (but not physicalism).

I can only speak for myself; at the heart of my reality are the conservation laws; when those go, by my own reasonable lights & judgment, I am done with physicialism, scientism and atheism.  Anything beyond that, in my opinion, would constitue religion.

This will be my last post for this thread; I really have nothing more to say on this subject.  Besides, the House GOP thread is way too much fun!!

I see no reason why, in principe, conservation law is essential to any of those things.  The only thing that is required for reality to be comprehensible in a scientific way is for behavior of the reality to be predicable and describable.   While the evident applicability of conservation laws in our reality as we experience it helps to make our particular reality predictable and describable, it seems quite possible to envision a different reality that remains predictable and describable without obeying the conservation laws as we know them.

Also,  if we can not describe or predict reality, or even if reality is principle undescribable and unpredictable, that absolutely does lead to anything which constitutes religion.   After all, religion is also description and prediction.    If reality is principle undescribable and unpredictable in a scientific manner, then there is in principle no basis for religion either.

If science is true, religion is false because science says so.   If science is false, then religion can not be true, because such a nature of reality that would make science false also fundamentally makes religion false.

Religion is not an alternative to science in the sense that science works up to some limit, if beyond that is religion.  The non-overlapping magisterium bullshit is bullshit.   in principle, religion does exactly the same thing as science,  describe and predict the reality in which we find ourselves in order to lay out the governing framework for our decision making,  except religion does it baselessly, assertively, overreachingly and fraudulently, while science does it evidentiarily, testably, conservatively and honestly.