Science is when you make hypotheses and and test them against empirical evidence. The primary function of science is to demonstrate the existence of phenomena that cannot be observed directly.

At the core of materialism, the fundamental component of existence - the nature of consciousness -- is intentionally ignored even though the pioneers of quantum mechanics demonstrated and believed consciousness has a definite role in creating reality. Mainstream materialist theories of consciousness use classical mechanics in assuming consciousness emerged and is produced from "goo"; this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors of Irreducible Mind systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms.

The Case Against Naturalism