Here is how religious-philosophical arguments come together

The spiritualists, who think in terms of thoughts and ideas, the materialists (including science), who think in terms of atoms and bodies, and the pragmatists, who say both sides are valid (see Alexander Bard), are all arguing about materialism/supermaterialism (formerly deemed spiritual).  There is no split here, there is only different levels of evolution from the material to the supermaterial. It is that simple, or that difficult.