There's ultimately something mysterious and un-materialistic about the world.
Although different religions show different ways of accepting evolution (Scott 1997), the materialistic position about the evolutionary processes assumed by several scientists, such as Richard Dawkins (1987) and William Provine (1988), reinforce the thought of the literalists, who state that nobody can be a Christian and an evolutionist at the same time.
And yet there is something fundamentally materialistic about information that we often ignore, although it stares us - literally - in the eye: the hardware that makes information happen.
"I could care less about all the materialistic things, like the art and museum and books," said one Daheshist, Mounir Murad, owner of a Virginia electronic-imaging company and author of a self-published book, "Daheshism and the Journey of Life".
The song "Red Velvet" discusses the materialistic nature of the hip-hop scene.
I think that they have prejudices and assumptions and biases, handed down as an inheritance from two millennia of Christian culture, which retain a certain amount of force even though given purely materialistic premises about mankind and the universe they don't actually make much sense at all.
Buffon's works, Histoire naturelle (1749 1789) and Époques de la nature (1778), containing well-developed theories about a completely materialistic origin for the Earth and his ideas questioning the fixity of species, were extremely influential.
"We know about the materialistic attitude behind those S.U.V.'s," he said.
For some, it's all about the materialistic stuff.
For an adolescent in the confusing, materialistic suburbs of the nineteen-seventies, these shelters were powerful artifacts; they made credible and specific our school-book pages about Great Depression and its improvisational-jobs programs.
