Debate Over a Long-Standing Dispute: Who's Right? Religion or Science?

Document Type : Essay

Author

Imam Hussein University (A.s)

Abstract

 The discussion of the relationship between human knowledge and religion is one of the common and long-standing concerns of religious scholars and scientists. This is not really a simple matter: at some point in history, there has been talk of the relationship between reason and religion. At other times, the debate over the relationship between philosophy and religion has been hot. At other times, the question of the relationship between mysticism and religion has been raised, and in recent times, there has been more controversy over the relationship between science (experimental sciences) and religion. The common denominator of these various issues is the concern that everyone wants to know between knowledge that has a heavenly and divine origin (the source of revelation) and knowledge that is rooted in ordinary human understanding and obtained through general perceptual channels (intellect, sensory experience, and intuition). They come, what is the ratio? This problem becomes more serious and occurs as a dilemma when there is a difference between the sciences resulting from revelation and the sciences resulting from science. For example, science claims that without bank interest, one cannot have a successful economy, and knowledge based on revelation considers exactly interest-based economy to be unsuccessful. Hence, sometimes this issue appears as a conflict between science and religion, and efforts are focused on resolving such real or illusory conflicts.