Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER
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Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India, and Associate Prof. of Al-Mustafa International University, and University of Toronto Researcher
Abstract
SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The question of whether religion is compatible with science has occupied a prominent place in the discussions of the nineteenth century and some thinkers hold the view that science and religion are incompatible. In contrast to this view, those who believe that religion and science cannot be opposed to each other, argue that they are two aspects of the facts of life; One aspect touches the soul while the other indicates material advancement.
METHOD AND FINDING: This paper tends to deal descriptively and analytically with the relation between science and religion from the view point of Hans Kong as one of the present theologians. Considering the main purpose of religions, the relationship among ethics and religion and modern science is stricter. In other word, religions have come to improve the moral activities in human’s life, and they have to lead him to goodness and happiness; Because science cannot bring the value for man but religion can. The ethics of religion can solve many problems of mankind; For example purification to complete goodness and bring new horizons of human’s perfection. Religion gives peace to the scientifically advanced and worried society.
CONCLUSION: Therefore, in this paper, an attempt was made to examine and analyze the main points of Hans Kung viewpoint of compatibility and alignment in the relationship between science and religion, and other areas such as the beginning of the universe, creation of the world, and etc.
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