The Perspective of Tafsir Almanar and Almizan on the Relationship between Science and Religion in Terms of Their Position on the Origins of Man

Nowadays the study of the relationship between science and religion is conditional to assuming a position with regard the issue of the origins of man. The relationship between Quranic teachings and empirical findings is an issue which has been dealt with by Allameh Tabatabai and Rashid Reza in commenting on Quranic verses focusing on Man and his origins. The author of Tafsir Almanar, has attempted, as far as possible, to show a perfect correspondence between the two; while, the author of Almizan has seriously tried to challenge empirical sciences purposefully and systematically. Though the approach adopted in Almanar implies its author’s passive reaction to empirical sciences, the author of Almizan has assumed different methods to reject empirical sciences. Meanwhile, none of these commentators have mentioned, explicitly or implicitly, the epistemological bases of their approaches. Therefore, arriving at a comprehensive pattern of the relationship between religion and science seems probelmatic.