It is shown that modern science has espoused a materialist hypothesis. This assumption leads modern scientists to state unequivocally that they will reproduce evolution in the laboratory, produce life from nonliving materials, produce machines with conscious human-like intelligence and make the blind and deaf see and hear. It is the contention of this paper that these conclusions must be modified drastically if the non-material hypothesis that there are forces in the universe that science cannot manipulate is assumed.