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Religion deals with the inside of our minds, hearts and souls,

Science does its best to objectively understand the physical world beyond all that.

 

Woo nonsense.  Gould was entirely wrong.  the essay you cite is little more than a travelogue narrative of some trip he took.

There is no place in the science of evolution for god, spirit, soul, divine intervention, divine guidance, miracles, or any such superstitious foolishness.  The science of evolution traces the biochemical means and interactions with the physical environment that gave rise to whole of all life that has ever lived of which we are just a small part, albeit the most intellectually advanced part.

Religion invents superstitious fantasies called mind, heart, and soul that have no place whatever in rational thought or scientific analysis.

All aspects of the human organism including all our thoughts and all our behaviors are entirely within the magisteria of science including the science of how these aspects of our organism arose, the science of evolution.

Religion is within the magisteria of ancient ignorant superstitious attempts at explaining who and what we are.

To say that religion is compatible with science is to say that ignorant superstition is compatible with rational analysis.  They are not compatible with each other.  Gould was wrong.