'''Non-overlapping Magisteria ''' is an apologetic put forward by [[liberal ]] evolutionist [[Stephen Jay Gould|Stephen Jay Gould]]. Gould described NOMA as "a blessedly simple and entirely conventional resolution to ... the supposed conflict between science and religion."
Magisterium is defined as "a domain where one form of teaching holds the appropriate tools for meaningful discourse and resolution" and the NOMA principle is "the magisterium of science covers the empirical 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. These two magisteria do not overlap, nor do they encompass all inquiry (consider, for example, the magisterium of art and the meaning of beauty)."
To embrace NOMA would be to consign the entirety of scripture to metaphor and storytelling.
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