خلاصه ماشینی:
Consider, for example, the following statement by no less an authority than the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, in 1981: Religion and science are separate and mutually exclusive realms of human thought, presentation of which in the same context leads to misunderstanding of both scientific theory and religious belief.
Those who modestly and sincerely search for the truth shall be guided to it by God. The first group of objectors should remember that verified knowledge, if that is what science ultimately is, is only another activity pursued by the Muslim scientist that should be guided by the same Islamic values guiding his/her entire life.
Our hope is that this expose might help those social scientists who received their professional socialization within the prevalent Western paradigm to see the scientific method as it is-nothing more than one possible way of knowing the world and one with many shortcomings and flaws that need urgent correction.
We will also show how its positivist-empiricist biases have contributed immensely to the noted poverty of the social sciences by dismissing as non-scientific, or even as non-sense, any reference to the spiritual-religious aspects of the human being.
31-2) There is general agreement that the traditional scientific method, when applied in the social sciences, reflected these same characteristics.
Capra comments on these insights by saying that theories of contemporary science reveal a conception of the world which can be "in perfect harmony with [the working scientists'] spiritual aims and religious beliefs.
This is where "revelation" fits into the general picture of developing an Islamic social science theory.