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Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) is the view, advocated by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values, so there is a difference between the "nets"[1] over which they have "a legitimate magisterium, or domain of teaching authority", and the two domains do not overlap.[2] He suggests, with examples, that "NOMA enjoys strong and fully explicit support, even from the primary cultural stereotypes of hard-line traditionalism" and that it is "a sound position of general consensus, established by long struggle among people of goodwill in both magisteria."[1] Some have criticized the idea or suggested limitations to it, and there continues to be disagreement over where the boundaries between the two magisteria should be. In a 1997 essay "Non-overlapping Magisteria"[3] for Natural History magazine, and later in his book Rocks of Ages (1999), Gould put forward what he described as "a blessedly simple and entirely convent

Non-overlapping magisteria - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia View of science and religion Non-overlapping magisteria ( NOMA ) is the view, advocated by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould , that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values , so there is a difference between the "nets" [ 1 ] over which they have "a legitimate magisterium, or domain of teaching authority", and the two domains do not overlap. [ 2 ] He suggests, with examples, that "NOMA enjoys strong and fully explicit support, even from the primary cultural stereoty

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