The Confrontation Between Science and Religion from the Perspective of Mehdi Golshani and Ted Peters

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to examine the models of confrontation between science and religion from the perspectives of Ted Peters and Mehdi Golshani. In this study, the issues raised in the models mentioned by Peters and Golshani are studied so that the differences and similarities of views can be examined.

KEYWORDS:

• Science
• religion
• Mehdi Golshani
• Ted Peters

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Mir, Mustansir, “Christian Perspectives on Religion and Science and their Significance for Modern Muslim Thought,” in God, Life, and the Cosmos, ed. Ted Peters et al. (Mashhad:Islamic Research Foundation Astan Quds Razavi, 2012), 143.

2 Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers (Hutchinson, 1959), 528.

3 Michael Peterson, Reichenbach Hasker, Bruce William, and David Basinger, Reason & Religious Belief (An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion) (Oxford, 2012), 358–359.

4 Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, and Syed Nomanul Haq, God, Life, and the Cosmos (Christian and Islamic Perspectives) (London: Routledge, 2002), 116.

5 Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, Relationship between Religion and Science (Qom: Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, 2013), 16.

6 Mehdi Golshani, Science & Religion in a Monotheistic Perspective (Tehran: K.N. Tousi University, 2019), 73–757.

7 Ibid, 75–76

8 Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T & T.Clark, 1958), Vol. 3, 1.

9 Golshani, Science & Religion in a Monotheistic Perspective, 76–77.

10 Ibid., 77.

11 Ian Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Perntice Hall, 1997), 87.

12 Henry Margenau and Abraham Roy, Varghese (La Salle, IJI: Open. Court, 1992), 171.

13 Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion, 211.

14 Ibid., 91–92.

15 Golshani, Science & Religion in a Monotheistic Perspective, 81–87.

16 Ibid., 26.

17 Ibid.

18 Donald M. Mackay, Real Science, Real Faith, ed. R. J. Berry (Eastbourne: Monarch, 1991), 205.

19 Golshani, Science & Religion in a Monotheistic Perspective, 88–91.

20 R. Levy, The Social Structure of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957), 460.

21 Margenau and Roy, Varghese, 460.

22 Ted Peters, “Science and Religion: Ten Models of War, Truce, and Partnership,” Theology and Science 16.1 (2018), 11–53, 13.

23 Michael Shermer, How We Believe :The Search for God in an Age of Science (New York: H. Freeman and Co., 2000), 61.

24 Peters, “Science and Religion,” 15.

25 Paul Davies, The Mind of God (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), ix, 16.

26 Peters, “Science and Religion,” 18.

27 Ibid., 21–22.

28 Ibid.

29 Duane T. Gish, Evolution: The Fossils Say No! (San Diego: Creation-Life Publishers, 1973). Roger E. Timm, “Scientific Creationism and Biblical Theology,” in Cosmos as Creation, ed. Ted Peters (Nashville: Abingdon, 1989), 247–264.

30 Langdon Gilkey, Creationism on Trial (San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1985), 49–52; 108–113.

31 Peters, “Science and Religion,” 24.

32 Ibid., 26.

33 Ibid., 35.

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Maryam Shamsaei

Maryam Shamsaei is an Associate Professor of the Department of Islamic Education, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, Iran and at the Quran, Hadith, and Medicine Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.