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Science And Religion Stephen Jay Gould Summary

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The overall theme of the book was to try and explain NOMA, or non-overlapping magistern, and how it is the solution to the false concept of the warfare between science and religion. Stephen Jay Gould uses this book as a way to try and help people to understand the NOMA concept. He wanted to explain how science and religion can not be unified into one teaching, but how they also can’t be kept on two completely different sides.

The book uses different views from both highly religious men and from important scientific figures. It shows how religious people believe in God or another God-like figure without seeing them. While religion believes without seeing, science uses its teachings and studies and factual evidence to prove everything happens a certain way. For some people, they turn away from religion because of a devastating event in their life. They begin to believe more in science because they don’t understand why they are having this devastating experience. They believe that was the case for Charles Darwin and T.H. Huxley when they lost their children. …show more content…

Many people see religion and science and see them at war when that is not the case. We can apply the golden mean to it. By applying the golden mean, the two different institutions can still maintain the respect they have and can keep their beliefs. We need to keep both because there is not one magisterium that can solve all problems and answer all questions. Science can answer all the questions about nature, but religion is the only one who can answer the question about morality. We are allowed to make a decision on which one we are wanting to believe, but we should listen to both because both have important

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