Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA)

Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) is the view, advocated by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, fact vs. values, so there is a difference between the «nets» over which they have «a legitimate magisterium, or domain of teaching authority», and the two domains do not overlap. He suggests, with examples, that «NOMA enjoys strong and fully explicit support, even from the primary cultural stereotypes of hard-line traditionalism» and that it is «a sound position of general consensus, established by long struggle among people of goodwill in both magisteria». Some have criticized the idea or suggested limitations to it, and there continues to be disagreement over where the boundaries between the two magisteria should be.

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Gould addresses the conflict between secular scientists and religious believers who question or deny scientific theory when it is in discrepancy with religious teachings on the origin and nature of the natural world. Borrowing a term from the Catholic Church, Gould describes science and religion as each comprise a separate magisterium of human understanding. Science defines the natural world, and religion the moral world. If each realm is separate, then according to Gould, they are not in conflict. He calls this the principle of non-overlapping magisteria, abbreviated NOMA.

👉 Stephen Jay GOULD, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, 2002.