Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

It is commonly thought today that there is a battle between science and religion. Yet highly respected evolutionist, the late Stephen Jay Gould, claimed that both could be accepted and need not contradict each other. Gould believed that science and religion dealt with entirely different subjects and were like ships passing in the night. This theory (with which Dawkins vehemently disagrees) is known among scientists as NOMA: non-overlapping magisteria. He got the idea in early 1084, while staying in a hotel for itinerate priests at the Vatican, where he was attending “a meeting on nuclear winter sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.” Housed in the same hotel and also attending the conference was “a group of French and Italian Jesuit priests who were also professional scientists.”