The statement that "[s]cience is the study of the material world is itself a non-empirical, non-scientific philosophical/metaphysical claim. It even has a name: "methodological naturalism" and it is not coterminous with or the same as "science", properly understood.
Are you saying science does not study the material world? That fields of study such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, etc, is an illusion? That it's all a great deception?
