He suggests that generally God uses secondary causes, but miracles may be needed when theistic scientists are unable to find a materialistic explanation.

He, like Lewis, had not yet reached a position of religious faith, but he was dissatisfied with purely materialistic explanations for life's mysteries, and he found the conversation of Barfield intoxicating.

He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings and gave a materialistic explanation of the origin of the universe.

For example, it states that intelligent design does not require miracles or the supernatural, but still does not rely on "materialistic explanations":

We need to follow where the evidence leads and we shouldn't presuppose that the evidence will necessary lead to a naturalistic or materialistic explanation.

Give me a materialistic explanation that will explain away all that.

Yahweh gave materialistic explanations of the following:

Popular scientific author and ecologist Jared Diamond has also put forward materialistic explanations, that work within an evolutionary framework, to explain the differences between various cultures almost exclusively through the variations in environmental factors.

"To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God"

In the same address, the Pope rejected any theory of evolution that provides a materialistic explanation for the human soul: