This view admits possible contradictions and attempts to resolve them. The purely religious view claims science and religion are mutually exclusive domains of study and cannot legitimately interact. Any contradictions arising between theology and science are pseudo-problems arising from one discipline trespassing on the other's proper domain. Complementarity asserts that theology and science are addressing different levels of one underlying reality. Complementary descriptions of reality on occasion gives rise to the appearance of theological and scientific contradictions.
Dogmatism is an appeal to the authority of one interpretative scheme over the other.
Scientific atheists and religious fundamentalists tend to hold this view. The relationship between science and theology adopted in the following discussion is one of moderate concordism and complementarity. We avoid dogmatism because there is substantial evidential basis for the validity of both scientific and theological methodologies. The purely religious view is avoided because it tends to produce a dualistic view that implies the physical aspects of life are irrelevant to spiritual concerns and vice versa. This leads to noninteracting spiritual and physical worlds which is contrary to the biblical theme concerning the relationship between God and man.