You seem to be claiming that whatever does get discovered, which might be interpreted as proof of the spiritual in another climate, will get distorted to support the materialist paradigm. I’m not really sure how this would work in practice. We already have a something of a precommitment to what we expect something “supernatural” to look like, ontologically basic mental entities. So far the discoveries of science have been nothing like that, and if new scientific discoveries suddenly were, I find it very hard to imagine quite many people outside of the “priesthood” not sitting up and paying very close attention.
I don’t really follow your arguments about what matter is and past scientist being wrong. Science improved and proved past scientists mistaken, that’s the whole idea with science. Spiritualists have not improved much so far. And the question with matter isn’t so much as what it is (what would an answer to this look like anyway?), but how matter acts, and science has done a remarkably good job at that part.
You seem to be claiming that whatever does get discovered, which might be interpreted as proof of the spiritual in another climate, will get distorted to support the materialist paradigm. I’m not really sure how this would work in practice. We already have a something of a precommitment to what we expect something “supernatural” to look like, ontologically basic mental entities. So far the discoveries of science have been nothing like that, and if new scientific discoveries suddenly were, I find it very hard to imagine quite many people outside of the “priesthood” not sitting up and paying very close attention.
I don’t really follow your arguments about what matter is and past scientist being wrong. Science improved and proved past scientists mistaken, that’s the whole idea with science. Spiritualists have not improved much so far. And the question with matter isn’t so much as what it is (what would an answer to this look like anyway?), but how matter acts, and science has done a remarkably good job at that part.