Ma`rifat-e Kalami, Volume 8, Issue 1, No 18, Year 2025 , Pages 23-42

    The Relationship between Science and Religion in Plantinga 's Initial View

    Article Type: 
    Research
    Writers:
    ✍️ Seyed Mustafa / Ph.D. student of philosophy of religion, IKI / MirbabaPoor@Gmail.com
    Yousof Daneshwar / Assistant Professor of IKI / yousef.daneshvar@gmail.com
    Pages: 23-42 Receive Date: 2025/04/01 Accept Date: 2025/04/01
    Abstract: 
    The relationship between science and religion is one of the crucial issues in the contemporary intellectual environment. Alvin Plantinga has raised some important issues in this regard. He adopts two views and in these views, he believes that in some cases, the relationship between science and religion are in conflict with one another due to the principle of methodological naturalism in science. In his first view, which is based on a metaphor introduced by Augustine, he holds that today science consists in the city of man against the city of God; some scientific findings are contradictory to religious beliefs, this conflict is real and serious. Science and religion contradict one another and this contradiction has roots in methodological naturalism. However, he considers that the role which methodological naturalism has in some parts of science is justifiable. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this paper presents Planinga's viewpoint and criticizes it.
    Keywords: 
    science and religion
    methodological naturalism
    Evolution
    Alvin Plantinga
    the initial perspective of Plantinga
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :رابطه‌ی علم و دین در دیدگاه اول پلانتینگا
    Abstract: 
    رابطه‌ی علم و دین از مباحث جدی فضای فکری معاصر است. آلوین پلانیتگا مباحث مهمی را در این باره مطرح کرده است. او در این زمینه دو دیدگاه دارد و در هر دو معتقد است که رابطه‌ی علم و دین در مواردی به دلیل اصل طبیعت گرایی روش شناختی در علم، به تعارض کشیده می شود. او در دیدگاه اولش بر اساس استعاره ای از آگوستین می گوید علم در جهان امروز در شهر انسان و در برابر شهر خدا قرار دارد و برخی یافته های علمی با باورهای دینی متعارض اند و این تعارض واقعی و جدی است و هریک از علم و دین، یکدیگر را نقض می کنند و ریشه‌ی این تعارض در طبیعت گرایی روش شناختی است؛ اما با این حال در بخش هایی از علم طبیعت گرایی روش شناختی را مجاز می داند. این مقاله با روش توصیفی ـ تحلیلی دیدگاه پلانتینگا را تبیین، و سپس آن را نقد و بررسی می کند.
    Keywords: 
    تکامل
    علم و دین
    طبیعت گرایی روش شناختی
    آلوین پلانتینگا
    دیدگاه اول پلانتینگا
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