BY DAVID KYLE JOHNSON
More than two decades ago Stephen Jay Gould famously defended the NOMA thesis-the idea that science and religion cannot be in conflict because they are about “non-overlapping magisteria.”
The lack of conflict between science and religion arises from a lack of overlap between their respective domains of professional expertise-science in the empirical constitution of the universe, and religion in the search for proper ethical values and the spiritual meaning of our lives.1