The Savior of Science

by Jaki, Stanley L.

• ISBN13: 9780802847720
• ISBN10: 0802847722
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Author Biography

Stanley L. Jaki is Distinguished University Professor at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
The Stillbirths of Science	9	(40)
Science and belief in Progress	9	(6)
Doubts in Progress and the historiography of science	15	(5)
The Fall and a blind spot for stillbirths	20	(2)
An Egypt to be buried in sand	22	(4)
Hindus, still old and lethargic	26	(4)
An ever-old new China	30	(7)
Babylon as `babylon'	37	(2)
Greek tragedy with a scientific cast	39	(5)
Muslim epilogue to an age-old tragedy	44	(5)
The Birth That Saved Science	49	(40)
Copernicus' surprising naturalness	49	(5)
The natural tone of Buridan	54	(4)
The Universe in Genesis 1	58	(3)
Universe and Covenant: prophets and psalms	61	(5)
Universe and Covenant: Wisdom literature	66	(6)
Buridan's debt to a cosmic tradition	72	(3)
Greeks, Jews, and Muslims	75	(4)
Universe and Christology	79	(6)
Self-defeating denial	85	(4)
Universe and Salvation	89	(42)
Heliocentrism and Christian faith	89	(8)
The pitfalls of an infinite universe	97	(6)
From blindness to schizophrenia	103	(5)
Relativity as road to the universe and beyond	108	(4)
Exorcists in scientific garb	112	(4)
The metaphysics of the physical universe	116	(6)
Illusions of being creators	122	(5)
A warning for Catholics	127	(4)
The Saving of Purpose	131	(48)
Purpose and a purposeless matter	131	(7)
Purposelessness of materialist evolution	138	(5)
The wages of materialist evolutionism	143	(5)
The slighting of evidence	148	(4)
The boomerang of Darwinism	152	(4)
Unrepentant Darwinists and non-Darwinian evolutionists	156	(3)
Catechism without salvation	159	(3)
The Fall of man through Darwinism	162	(3)
The true ground for the truth of evolution	165	(5)
The saving of matter and mind	170	(3)
Zeal with substance	173	(6)
The All-Saving Love	179	(42)
The losing of innocence	179	(5)
Moral impotence and inertia	184	(8)
Population bomb and playing with the populace	192	(4)
The pattern of playing God	196	(7)
Molecular Auschwitz	203	(4)
No Fall like the pitfall of Utopias	207	(3)
On the road to anarchy	210	(3)
The Savior of science	213	(8)
The Creator in the Dock	221	(22)
A specific ``everything''	221	(3)
Creation science: a strategic error	224	(6)
Darwinists in the dock of metaphysics	230	(4)
The challenge to the Supreme Court	234	(1)
Society at large in the dock	235	(3)
Synagogues and churches in the dock	238	(5)
Index of Names	243	(5)
Index of Subjects	248