Physicalism
Atheistic Physicalism. It's not at all to be associated with Materialism. To the materialist, the things of the world are toys of his mind—to be played with. Man is literally God the creator—all material of creation is his to be recreated and used—amusements for his mind's creativity.
Contrawise, for the physicalist matter is not toy and subject for the mind—there is no mental creation, whether by god or man or beast. There is no sanctity, no sovereignty of the mind. It is the physical that is sanct, that predates the mind. Physical matter is self-creating, but it is not a creative agent or being since that implies a creating logos, a plan or ideal.
The atheistic physicalist denies any duality of mind and body, or mind and matter, and maintains that rather the mind is physical, and thought an outgrowth of living matter. It is in short another organ of the body, another sense, and does not transcend it.
Physicalism is atheistic and must be so, since there is no way for a god to fit it, if by god is meant something non-physical, also real. Non-physicality and reality are mutually exclusive, to be simple about it.
Unless, like a physical scientist, you define god as energy, as motion (which I include under the meaning of physical), in which case your God is interchangeable with matter (so scientists say), and in any case he is not infinite nor wise nor a being nor capable of being a Creator.
