A Critical Look at the Status of Experimental Sciences in Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's Theory of Discovery

One of the most important issues in religious teachings is the relationship between science and religion, which was first appeared in the West and then found its way into Islamic theology and caused much controversy. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, as a philosopher and Quranic commentator, has discussed this issue in his various books and has proposed his theory as the "theory of discovery". This theory delineates the position of reason along with the other tools of religious knowledge. The present study, using the descriptive-analytical method, first explains the theory of discovery with a critical stance and then attempts to provide a critique of thestructure of this geometry, emphasizing its adherence to the verbal commonality of the experimental sciences and its idealistic conception of experimental sciences. The study shows that, to understand the nature of the new experimental sciences, one must examine the true evolution of the experimental sciences, so that its place in the geometry of religious knowledge can be accurately mapped.