An actual example is taken to illustrate that fitting precision of separated period is 17 ~ 28 times larger than non-separated period and the fitting of separated period has good effect.

So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

The late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould separated reason and faith with his non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA)