Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species and the new Argument for design

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Mehdi Golshani
The Academy of Sciences of IR Iran
10.22047/hsd.2026.598884.1156
Abstract
During the Islamic civilization era and in the middle ages, a religious world view was governing over scientists’ minds. But with the appearance of philosophers like Hume and Kant the role of religion in science was weakened. With the emergence of Positivism and Darwinism and Freudianism in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the role of religion and philosophy in science was almost lost But with the emergence of some schools of philosophy of science in the second half of the twentieth century the role of philosophy in science became evident. Furthermore, some eminent Western philosophers and scientists showed explicitly their interest n both science and religion, In recent decades many books have been written by Western scientists and philosophers that have supported theism and the incompleteness of science. Unfortunately this positive current has not been echoed in our country. But fortunately some of these books that have had very close views to the Islamic metaphysics, have been translated recently into Persian by my friends.
The important point is that our scientists should pay attention to the advices of some eminent contemporary Western scholars in not taking the present science and scientific theories as complete and the end of science. Furthermore, they should try to make novelties in the present science and to solve the unsolved problems and difficulties of the present science.
Keywords
Darwin’s theory
the evolution of species, survival of the fittest, struggle for survival, design argument, designer, entropic principle
 
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