Non-Overlapping Magisteria
Pretty impressive, huh?
It's a term coined by the late, great, Stephen Jay Gould to describe how science and religion do not (or need not) come into conflict if they keep to their own domains.
Now, I haven't read much on it (basically, what's behind the link), but it seems to make perfect sense. "Render unto Science those things that are Science's, and to the Gods those things that are the Gods'."
"Science and religion do not glower at each other ... [they] interdigitate in patterns of complex fingering, and at every fractal scale of self-similarity"
A similar position has been adopted by the National Academy of Sciences. Its publication Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition (1999) states that "Scientists, like many others, are touched with awe at the order and complexity of nature. Indeed, many scientists are deeply religious. But science and religion occupy two separate realms of human experience. Demanding that they be combined detracts from the glory of each." [38] This was subsequently signed by then-President Bruce Alberts.
Oh, and by the way...
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
--attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar
It's a term coined by the late, great, Stephen Jay Gould to describe how science and religion do not (or need not) come into conflict if they keep to their own domains.
Now, I haven't read much on it (basically, what's behind the link), but it seems to make perfect sense. "Render unto Science those things that are Science's, and to the Gods those things that are the Gods'."
"Science and religion do not glower at each other ... [they] interdigitate in patterns of complex fingering, and at every fractal scale of self-similarity"
A similar position has been adopted by the National Academy of Sciences. Its publication Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition (1999) states that "Scientists, like many others, are touched with awe at the order and complexity of nature. Indeed, many scientists are deeply religious. But science and religion occupy two separate realms of human experience. Demanding that they be combined detracts from the glory of each." [38] This was subsequently signed by then-President Bruce Alberts.
Oh, and by the way...
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
--attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar