Stephen Gould's "Rocks of Ages": A View of Evolution

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This paper is a review of the Stephen Gould's book "Rocks of Ages". The author examines the themes of religion, science, evolution and creationism in the book and how they overlap and provides a personal account and criticism of the book.

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"Rocks of Ages has one simple theme throughout its entirety, Gould's idea of NOMA. NOMA is an acronym for non-overlapping magisteria. Non-overlapping magisteria can be explained as science and religion being two separate and complementary ideas and ways of explaining different areas of life (Gould 6). As the author states late in his work,? And the chief theme of this book provides the common currency of agreement?NOMA, and the call for respectful and supportive dialogue between two distinct magisteria (148).? Simply stated the theme encompasses the fact that the science magisterium deals with the facts of nature, and the religious magisterium is based on a need to find meaning within our lives and to find reasons and moral bases for our actions, and that each magisterium should remain separate from the other."

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