My opinion of the "non-overlapping magisteria" (NOMA) idea (the idea that science and religion are different subjects that do not overlap) is that it is a pragmatic position that people take, to try to get the religious fools to accept any science at all. In other words, I think it is a lie, told to try to get religionists to accept some science. The practical alternative is for the religious nuts to totally reject science, as they are not going to just give up their religious beliefs.
If you go for an all or nothing approach, with most religionists, you get nothing.
If you go for an all or nothing approach, with most religionists, you get nothing.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
