Materialism is an irrefutable theory
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This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
This argument is an objection to There is no spirit outside matter.
Keywords: God
Summary
Whenever you oppose a materialist with a fact - such as an unexplained Near-Death Experience - he will retort that this fact will be explainable in a reductionist, materialist way in the future. What's more, he won't propose any experiment that he thinks might invalidate his materialistic faith. He is thus locked into a dogmatic way of thinking that is structured to prevent any rational or experimental refutation. Far from being reasonable, the materialist often defends his faith like a dogmatic believer.