"Stephen Jay Gould referred to science and religion as "non-overlapping magisteria." Non-overlapping? Hardly! The Judeo-Christian tradition embraces, as truths, such things as talking animals, a talking burning bush, the parting of the Red Sea, the sun "standing still" for Joshua, food falling out of the sky, a human walking on water, people rising from their graves, and several individuals "ascending" bodily into heaven. Such "truths" require the suspension of the laws of nature; if that is not overlapping the field of science I cannot imagine what would."
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