Contra Metaphysical Idealism

[bennyboy]

But it does not follow that reality is somehow made of ideas or experience.
Ideas and experience occur in our minds - they are results not causes.

You state this as a fact, but cannot actually know it to be a fact. Don't believe me? What is a mind if you take away experiences and ideas? Is it still a mind? Or is it a total absence of mind?

You are still asserting that science can't ever explain 'qualia'. You have no evidence of that.

I've never made any assertion about the future of science. I've said there's no evidence that science can ever answer certain categories of questions: those about cosmogony, and those about the existence of qualia.

The belief that science can answer questions that are not of a like category with already-answered questions is an issue of faith, not of evidence. On the other hand, there's good reason to believe that a science rooted in an objective physical monism cannot answer certain types of question: the prime ones being that physical observations are limited to things in this universe, and cannot show what, if anything, underlies its existence; and that no physical test can determine whether any system experiences qualia.