Yes, this is the well known conundrum which different scientists try to explain in different ways. Perhaps the Reality is a little bit of both, or better still there is but One fundamental Reality but that is, at its bottom, not matter but consciousness. At least that is how the famous physicist Max Plank thought about it. He was indeed quite right. But proving a subjective or even a non-material truth by objective experiments of a material nature is not easy. Hence the question hangs, for the material scientists at least. The spiritual scientists answered it long back that not matter but Existence is the true basis, not Nature but Consciousness is the fundamental reality.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
