'''Materialism''' is the belief that only [[matter]] exists, and that nothing unseen exists. Materialism is a type of [[atheism]]. Materialism holds that all phenomena and processes can be entirely explained as manifestations or results of matter, or physical interactions.<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/materialism Merriam Webster Dictionary: Materialism]</ref> In popular culture, materialism refers to an obsession with money and expensive goods that money can buy.
Materialism defies both experience and [[logic]]. Experience provides numerous [[counterexamples]] that disprove materialism, such as annual migration patterns by animals, [[homing]], [[action-at-a-distance]] and [[non-locality]], plus extraordinary good and evil events that lack statistically plausible explanations. Materialism is also contrary to logic, as there is no logical reason to expect human senses to be able to fully recognize all of reality.
Materialism is taught heavily in [[public schools]], leading students to undervalue [[unseen]] aspects of life. There is a high correlation between materialism and [[atheism]] as atheism is fundamentally a materialistic philosophy. Materialism denies that most great intellectual breakthroughs were the brainchild of men with [[faith]] in the [[unseen]].
== Materialism in Science Religion ==Materialism undermines [[science]] making it increasingly [[atheism|atheistic]]contradicts a certain religious explanations,<ref>http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheism1.htm</ref> rejecting God and His works in explanations of the world and all of human experience. Instead science readily embraces [[liberal logic]] and pseudo or [[junk science]] such as [[Counterexamples to Evolution|evolution]], [[Counterexamples to Relativity|relativity]], "[[global warming]]" and much of [[cosmology]] and [[geology]] based on a [[Counterexamples to an Old Earth|time frame]] which predates [[creation]]. Fortunately the rigid [[logic]] of [[creation science]] is gaining in importance, enabling intelligent people to distinguish real science from atheistic secular junk science.
== Other Aspects of Materialism ==