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Anonymous, I have to disagree with you here. Science is not set up to consider only materialist explanations. Instead, science is only set up to test explanations that make predictions.
It is hard, but not impossible, to make predictions based on dualism. For instance, if we could communicate with the dead -- even better, with the cremated dead -- then that would be strong evidence for dualism, and no less scientific for it.
What science cannot evaluate are theories like this: we have an immortal, non-material soul, but it cannot be detected. It cannot be communicated with. Without the existence of a body, it can have no detectable effect on anything in the universe.
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