Look, the point is this: religions are more than the contents of their scripture or the words of their most visible leaders. The Dalai Lama, while certainly a popular fellow, is not an accurate sampling of the world's fourth-largest religion. There are 520 million Buddhists on this planet, and not all of them have a subscription to Scientific American.
But more to the point, for all the talk of open-mindedness and acceptance, Buddhists still must make fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality in order to be Buddhists, and some of these assumptions are highly suspect or flat-out demonstrably wrong. The Dalai Lama, to continue harping on him as an example, probably isn't a huge fan of the neuroscientific evidence for materialism. Because if there's no soul, there's no reincarnation. If there's no reincarnation, there's probably no Buddhism, and definitely no Dalai Lama.
It's no different for the Evangelical Christians. They don't deny science. They just deny the science that directly contradicts their religious beliefs. They just do a lot more of it because their religion makes more assumptions about reality than Buddhism does.
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