We assume these people will also call for standard that demand critical thinking in the theory of the boiling temperature of water and whether gravity makes things go up or down.

I really dislike straw men fallacies. And ad-hominem attacks.

The difficulty I have with the materialist worldview is morality - if everything is essentially material, why do we rail against radical islamic extremism as if it were wrong? Where does the idea that Hamas using children as meat shields is morally offensive?