A Theist's Reply to Materialism and Scientism To my materialist friend: When you shake your fist at heaven, you do not banish heaven. You bring it back into the minds of men. Your protest keeps the question alive. Your anger assumes moral reality. Your argument assumes reason. Your demand for evidence assumes that truth matters. Even your denial of God depends on gifts your worldview struggles to explain. And when you turn your back on God, the rocks cry out. The heavens still declare. The order of nature remains. The mind still asks why there is something rather than nothing. The conscience still accuses. The heart still longs. The scientist still trusts reason. The skeptic still expects the universe to be intelligible. Materialism can deny the sacred. It cannot stop reality from bearing witness.