The assumption of materialism is as superstitious and silly as most religious assertions. It's scientism, not science. Science treats physical matter as first-

The assumption of materialism is as superstitious and silly as most religious assertions. It's scientism, not science. Science treats physical matter as first-class citizens; mind is not one. A large subset of Buddhism (especially Tibetan) takes the opposite approach-- mind is the first-class citizen, and physical matter is "an appearance to the mind"; it exists only because we (and trillions of other beings) experience it, and it's no more or less real than the world in a dream. These approaches seem diametrically opposite and yet, interesting enough, it seems that Buddhism is (of the major religions) the one most quick to embrace science, because of the mutual recognition that these two approaches (matter first vs. mind first) are just that: merely approaches, none of which have a monopoly on the generation of useful knowledge.