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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is Scientific Materialism?

Doing a philosophy class and I have no idea what this means even after searching it on Google.
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Basically, reject anything that cannot be scientifically proven/observed. However, it appears to really only be used by creationists to refer to the opposing side in the context of discussing moral relativism

i.e. someone may make the claim that since morality cannot be scientifically proven, materialists (aka atheists) have no obligation to behave according to any particular moral system.