What I have discovered through interacting with materialists
is that they want to remain materialists and therefore they
are willing to support naturalistic explanations even if they are vague and unrealistic.
Such explanations would be called "woo"
if they called into question naturalistic dogma.
But as long as naturalism is maintained, anything goes!
As for evidence or logic pointing to shortfalls in materialism
they are ignored or treated as irrelevant.
This is also how fundamentalist religious types behave
and I'm not the first to make that connection!
is that they want to remain materialists and therefore they
are willing to support naturalistic explanations even if they are vague and unrealistic.
Such explanations would be called "woo"
if they called into question naturalistic dogma.
But as long as naturalism is maintained, anything goes!
As for evidence or logic pointing to shortfalls in materialism
they are ignored or treated as irrelevant.
This is also how fundamentalist religious types behave
and I'm not the first to make that connection!