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Scientific theories ALWAYS assume the prior existence of physical material and laws of nature, unless you do assume that you cannot construct an explanation but as soon as you do assume that you assume the existence of the very thing you sought to explain, that is not an explanation.

That is the definition of a scientific explanation, it’s an infinite regress of explanations. It’s circular in the sense that science explains science, but each explanation is a new testable, logical explanation, independent of the previous explanation, although always existing in the “material” and depending on the laws of nature. I’ll just use your word for simplicity.

Is the problem that I’m assuming existence? There’s no way out of that. Even a non-scientific explanation for existence assumes existence. This is just hard solipsism. I never claimed to have a solution for that.