Ma`rifat Falsafi

The role of religious foundations and their status in the formation and orientation of sciences is among the topics that have attracted the attention of thinkers in our country in recent years, as they have attempted to examine the possibility of “religious science.” Meanwhile, natural sciences -despite their role in the technological development of societies and their significance in lifestyle and even in orienting the humanities- have received less attention; although through examining existing theories, one can also judge the possibility of religious science in this domain. In their article, while reviewing the background of the issue and extracting the views of certain theorists of religious science regarding the possibility or impossibility of religious science, and focusing on the natural sciences, the authors have made their attempt to analyze the connection between each thinker’s perspective and his methodological approach -namely, whether or not the method of the sciences is restricted to empirical observation. This is a key issue that, from the authors’ perspective, plays an effective role in a person’s belief in the possibility of a religious model in science. With this approach, if it is proven that the theories of the natural sciences are also interpretive and analytical in nature rather than purely descriptive, then the insistence on restricting the method in the natural sciences will lose its justification, and the path will be opened for reflection on the natural sciences based on religious foundations.