Dimensions of the relationship between religion and science and the nature of religious science مقاله

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The second aspect that had a significant impact on strengthening the view of the compatibility of religion with science was that religious institutions in the West, learning from the bitter experiences of the past, scaled back their previous claims regarding the recognition of empirical realities and what pertains to the scientific laws of cause and effect governing nature, and practically acknowledged that their duty and mission are primarily moral, involving values and the advancement of social justice, and showed that they are willing to recognize the competence of science in its specific domain. If we are aiming to provide desirable patterns, our method of collection and judgment will be different from the method of collection and judgment in the realm of experience; here, in judgment, we need the propositions to become demonstrative and argumentative; meaning, our premises should lead us to specific results in the form of demonstrative reasoning, and if we are aiming to recognize objective phenomena, it means we want to explain and interpret realities from the religious society using the obtained patterns, express its relationships, and find its causes; here, we must inevitably use the empirical method for judgment. However, merely by considering science as the only justified and rational knowledge regarding the world, and even worse, by negating any knowledge that is not scientific or relegating it to the realm of poetry, sentimentality, (1) imagination, subjectivism, and the like, in this case, a conflict can necessarily be found in the religious attitude toward reality in multiple dimensions, some of the most important of which are: a) From a religious perspective, the origin of the universe is the Divine Principle, meaning the God of the Abrahamic religions, who is beyond the realm and dimension of evolution, change, and becoming.