![Stephen J Gould is a famouse American Evolutionary Bilologist and also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. In a 1997 essay and later in his bookRock of Ages (1999), Gould put forward what he described as “a blessedly simple and entirely conventional resolution to… the supposed conflict betwee science and religion. He stated that Religion & Science where ”Non-Overlapping Majesteria”. Or in other words religion and science dealt with different aspects of reality - the magisterium of science covers the empitical realm: what the Universe is made of (fact) and why does it work in this way (theory). The magisterium of religion extends over questions of ultimate meaning and moral value. Stephen j Gould was a brilliant man and a fantastic scholar but…………… This is absolute bollox [][][]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0uzqutwPs1qjb4oao1_500.png)
Stephen J Gould is a famouse American Evolutionary Bilologist and also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. In a 1997 essay and later in his bookRock of Ages (1999), Gould put forward what he described as “a blessedly simple and entirely conventional resolution to… the supposed conflict betwee science and religion. He stated that Religion & Science where ”Non-Overlapping Majesteria”. Or in other words religion and science dealt with different aspects of reality - the magisterium of science covers the empitical realm: what the Universe is made of (fact) and why does it work in this way (theory). The magisterium of religion extends over questions of ultimate meaning and moral value. Stephen j Gould was a brilliant man and a fantastic scholar but…………… This is absolute bollox [][][]
