Materialism is irrational

Materialism contradicts itself by rejecting the teleological, yet claiming to base all science on empirical evidence.There is overwhelming empirical evidence that much human activity, and human speech, are teleological. Evolutionists cannot even describe evolution without resorting to teleological terms such as "adaptation." Every time anyone considers alternatives he is not only exercising liberty, as Allen Bloom correctly points out, but he is also exercising teleology. Even the semi-quantifiable hedonistic principle, which Pragmatists accept as their one axiological postulate, assumes human teleology. The pursuit of happiness is teleological. In nature, outside of man, one finds no teleology, no morality, and only passive reason in the form of patterns, which the observing mind perceives (some would say "imposes"). Is man something other than nature? In any case, whence does he derive teleology, morality, and reason? Not from subhuman nature. Many have sought it there and found nothing. We might suggest the supernatural, which cannot be studied by the inductive method which man uses to examine subhuman nature. However, even if the supernatural cannot be scientifically described, by default of any other explanation for the source of teleology, morality, and reason - in other words by the process of elimination - we can categorically state that the supernatural exists, and if we are honest, we must also claim that its existence is a scientific fact. Furthermore, if there were another explanation, that would merely present us with alternatives. It would not disprove the existence of the supernatural.