Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life: Difference between revisions

If you’ve read any of the clutter of recent books on evolutionary science or popular atheism, you’ll know that {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} - and particularly this book, {{br|Rocks of Ages}} comes with something of a health warning: Gould, despite great eminence and magisterial publishing history, is seen by a certain clique of like-minded authors within the biological community as being damaged goods and this attempt at popular philosophy, with its central thesis of “Non-Overlapping Magisteria” (“NOMA”) - an attempt at peaceful mediation between science and religion - is given short shrift by such authors, and elsewhere tends to be put down to Gould’s compromised situation when he wrote it (terminally ill with cancer). Since his death a few years ago, Rocks of Ages has lost an able champion and as a result looks set to disappear quietly beneath the waves of the current, squally debate.