Paleontologist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StephenJayGould|Stephen Jay Gould], in his short work Rocks of Ages, seeks to reconcile or at least explain the seeming incompatibility of a scientific worldview and the fact of evolution and the religious belief in a supernatural entity. In doing so he introduces the concept of NOMA—non-overlapping magisteria—which may seem superficially satisfactory, but ultimately isn't.