Collins on TCR, or, Why NOMA is doomed

Francis Collins was on The Colbert Report this week. The first substantive (that is, non-establishing) question Colbert asked him was:

You say you're a Christian: do you think you'll be the only Christian in Hell? Since you believe in evolution and that stuff.

Now, Collins handled the question all right, and made good points - he did a fine job.

But Colbert's out-of-the-starting-gate attack is exactly why NOMA doesn't work: the radical religious won't stay on their side of the line. They don't buy the "non-overlapping" part - they think - and loudly insist - that their religion actually covers everything.

Science may decide it won't tackle the "what is the purpose" if religion lets the "what is the reason/cause" alone, but if religion won't, then science is stuck with the fight.