Ferguson emphasizes that religion and science need not stand in conflict with each other, and that it is important that the general public be aware of this. According to Ferguson, such awareness can be enhanced by letting people understand how scientific discovery takes place. She advocates educating people about science as a dynamic process of inquiry in which an established theory may be replaced by another theory if that new theory explains phenomena in a simpler way or if it explains them on a deeper, richer level than the earlier theory.