Neurologist Steven Novella is sure that materialism is not falsifiable by science. Egnor responds:
Novella notes that supernaturalism is incompatible with his (tautological) materialism/naturalism. He then asserts:
A truly supernatural event, however, would produce a forever enduring anomaly—one that never yields to scientific research using methodological naturalism. Again, we run into a logical problem—for never never comes. So we cannot say ever that an anomaly will never yield to research, only that it so far has not. Therefore, declaring an enduring anomaly supernatural is still outside the realm of science and requires a leap of faith, and such an anomaly would not falsify naturalism.
STEVEN NOVELLA, “SCIENCE AND SUPERNATURALISM” AT NEUROLOGICABLOG
As it turns out, there are many such “enduring” supernatural anomalies. I won’t here discuss the mind, quantum mechanics, or the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments for God’s existence, among countless other “enduring anomalies” in the natural world. The real world is saturated with enduring anomalies. I will discuss a particularly obvious supernatural anomaly in materialism/naturalism: cosmological singularities.
Cosmological singularities, such as black holes and the singularity from which our universe arose, are wholly supernatural. That is, they are undefined in any materialist/naturalist framework. They are literally undefined—that is, a singularity is a solution to Einstein’s field equations of general relativity which entails division by zero. As you’ll recall, division by zero is undefined in mathematics. A singularity is, in that sense, not a part of mathematics or nature, at least not in the materialist/naturalist sense that can be studied by physical science…
— Michael Egnor, “Is materialism falsifiable? Yes, easily.” at Mind Matters News
See also:
Gödel and God: A surprising history A thought-provoking account of master logician Gödel’s largely unknown proof of the existence of God.
God’s existence is proven by science: Arguments for God’s existence can be demonstrated by the ordinary method of scientific inference.
and
Tales of the Mind:A neuroscientist encounters the house of mirrors Materialism is an intellectual trap, out of which neuroscience needs to climb.