religious worldview

Discovering the relationship between the Empirical Science and Worldview is discovering the relationship between two separate realms of human knowledge. Worldview is often concerned with metaphysical problems, and the empirical science with natural problems. But after discovering the relationship between them, we can see whether the new scientific discoveries can lead to new worldviews and whether the new worldviews can change the empirical sciences. This article aims at examining Abdulkarim Soroush’s views on this issue. According to Soroush, the different sciences have different relationships with each other. By separating the contexts of “Assertion” and “Latency” and the stages of “Discovery” and “Judgment”, he shows that the relationship between sciences is only in the context of “Assertion” and the stage of “Discovery” and in these two the empirical science and worldview can influence on each other.

Some different viewpoints and perceptions regarding “religious science” have been presented. Some theorists, relying on a special view about science and religion, have basically rejected the religious science, and some, on the contrary, in addition to accepting the principle of religious science’s possibility and its objective materialization, believe in its necessity, one ofwhom is Professor Mehdi Golshani. In his viewpoint, the worldview and metaphysical foundations dominating on the science and scientist are the factors rendering science religious. On the basis of this viewpoint, the religiosity of science is a matter of science’s foundations and goals. Religious science is a knowledge based on theist worldview. The religiosity of science’s goal is considered in theoretical and practical dimensions. In the theoretical dimension, the goal is to discover God’s signs and get familiar with the creation design and perceive God’s power and greatness. In the practical dimension, the goal is to dominate the natural world in order to meet the human’s legitimate needs and use the capacities God has provided humans with. The present article, first, presents religious science’s foundations and nature in the viewpoint of Dr. Golshani, and then, examines and criticizes his theory.