Stephen Jay Gould explained this with the concept of Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA). He said that the domain or magisterium for religion includes the ultimate meaning and moral values. The magisterium of science is the empirical realm - what the universe is made from and why it works the way it does. He proposed that these magisteria are nonoverlapping - science does not comment on the ultimate meaning of life, while religion should not comment on the natural world.
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