Criticism of Dawkins' View on the Relationship between Science and Religion by Approach of Philosophical Kālām of Imamiyyā
Subject Areas : Islamic theology
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قربانعلی کریم زادۀ قراملکی
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اسد مهدیون هراب
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By denying God and religion and considering them as illusions, Dawkins claims that religious faith is a blind truth and a kind of mental illness and an accidental product of a kind of deviation in a useful matter; therefore, religion is in conflict with science and has a virus-like opposition and prevents its progress. In this research, her perspective has been criticized and examined using an analytical and descriptive method, and in library studies it has been clarified. However, according to philosophical kālām of Imamiyyā discourse, contrary to Dawkins' view, believes that science and religion are not only not contradictory, but the truth of religion, unlike Dawkins, originates from the pure institution of man and is based on rational and unbreakable principles, and its relationship with science is distinct in some areas and complementary in some cases and interactive in some cases. Also, from the perspective of philosophical kālām of Imamiyyā, if empirical science is viewed as absolute and certainty, it will be a harmful error to the extent of denying God and will cause the collapse of the principles of human ethics and virtues.
