The absolute materiality of the physicist's world is an artifact of its utter abstraction. To say abstract is not to say non-material, for experimental method is both material and abstract.
To the extent the material depends on the sensory, Einstein's work deals with that in terms of the physics of light and energy and the limits of information in the physical universe. The point is not non-materiality, the point is we have a whole other channel of knowing things, the non-abstract, non-neuronal, hormonal way of gut feels and carnal knowledge. When Shroedinger says "... we do not belong to the material world the science constructs for us." (E. Shroedinger, My View of the World, 1964) he is, without knowing it, intimating just this dichotomy between abstract and carnal knowledge. The carnal knowledge side of the matter is what the ancient world and the Bible are concerned with.
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