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You are essentially exemplifying the dogmatic views of materialists, believing our system of inquiry is infallible. They have delivered the goods, it's been shown, and yet still ignored by the mainstream because it contradicts our cultural ethos. Because we don't take in the importance of energy and the fact that we exist in a field, we do not understand the importance of our architecture. We think it exists on top of the planet, but it exists inside the planet because the field is part of the planet as well. Egyptians didn't learn this by having a superior system of inquiry, they learned this by have a different cultural perspective--one that modern materialists take for inferior by fact that predates the current one which coincides with an empirical method of inquiry. There's a lack of respect in the materialist community for ethos outside of materialism, they are considered superstition and circular inherently.
And by virtue of the fact that you are attempting to argue that our culture's system of inquiry is infallible, you've essentially proved my claim (and Sheldrake's) that Scientism is an ideology. The ideology, in analogy, is that our means of categorizing colors is more accurate than another culture's because it rests upon empirical inquiry. But it doesn't, it's just a random categorization and colors could be categorized a thousands different ways. But because we have an empirical method of inquiry, we, as a culture, take for granted that not every aspect of our model of reality emerged through empirical inquiry. We confuse our map for reality. We confuse a belief for truth, and this is dogmatism.