more carefully analyzed in due course. For now, I merely wish to maintain that in order to avoid terminological confusion such thinking ought not to be called materialism. In the present work, at any rate, “materialism” will always mean scientific materialism as we’ve defined it here. This scientific materialism is what I am calling the mundane view of nature.
This brings us to one last question: is an outlook of scientific materialism compatible with religion? If we restrict the scope of religion to ethical guidance or to personal meaning that we project onto the world, then the answer is clearly yes. This was essentially the position taken by the American naturalists. However, if we ascribe serious ontological reality to a transcendent ground of Being, for example, then our beliefs can no longer remain compatible with scientific materialism. These beliefs can certainly be compatible with science as such, but given the proposed linkage between materialism and science there is still a significant problem to resolve. A materialist worldview does not conflict with our feeling that nature is sacred, but rather with sacredness being a genuine attribute of nature itself.
4. The Sacred World
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