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About the Author
STACY A. TRASANCOS is a professor of chemistry at Holy Apostles College and Seminary.
Her website: stacytrasancos.com
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[1] Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, 1: “Each Christian and every community must discern the path that the Lord points out, but all of us are asked to obey his call to go forth from our own comfort zone in order to reach all the ‘peripheries’ in need of the light of the Gospel.”
[2] Stanley L. Jaki, Science and Religion: A Primer (Port Huron, MI: Real View Books, 2004), 12; Stanley L. Jaki, The Drama of Quantities (Port Huron, MI: Real View Books, 200), 25-50.
[3] Stanley L. Jaki, A Mind’s Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography (Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002), 103.
[4] He described it this way himself in the 1986 preface to Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, Ltd, 1986), vi.
[5] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 33.
[6] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 69.
[7] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 49.
[8] Most are published by Real View Books, and are available on that website.
[9] Paul Haffner, Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S. L. Jaki, 2nd Edition (Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2009).
[10] Haffner, 7.
[11] Haffner, 311-320.
[12] Stanley L. Jaki, A Late Awakening and Other Essays (Port Huron, MI: Real View Books, 2004), 68.
[13] Haffner 13.
[14] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 24; Jaki, Science and Religion, 4.
[15] Jaki, Science and Religion, 31.
[16] Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000), 50.
[17] Jaki, Savior of Science, 50; Isaac Newton, Principia, A New Translation by I. B. Cohen and A. Whitman (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), 416-417.
[18] Jaki, Science and Religion, 4.
[19] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5. For Jaki’s explanation see Jaki, Science and Religion, 28; Jaki, A Late Awakening, 63. See also Stanley L. Jaki, Numbers Decide and Other Essays (Pinckney MI: Real View Books, 2003), 191; Stanley L. Jaki, Questions on Science and Religion (Pinckney MI: Real View Books, 2004), 183; and Stanley L. Jaki, The Drama of Quantities (Port Huron, MI: Real View Books, 2005).
[20] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5.
[21] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5.
[22] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5.
[23] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5.
[24] Aristotle, Categories, Part 8.
[25] Aristotle, Categories, Part 5.
[26] Aristotle, Categories, Part 6.
[27] ST, I, q. 1, a. 2, Respondeo dicendum, Latin-English Edition, vol. 1, NovAntiqua.
[28] ST, I, q. 1, a. 5.
[29] Jaki, A Late Awakening, 217-256.
[30] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 100.
[31] Jaki, Science and Religion, 4-8; Jaki, Numbers Decide, 191-196.
[32] Jaki, Science and Religion, 4.
[33] Jaki, Questions, 11. In Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 178-179 he clarified that “objects” is the better word instead of “things.”
[34] A good summary of this definition is given in the booklet Science and Religion, 4-17. Jaki also addresses it in many other places, for instance Questions, Chapter 14; Drama of Quantities, Foreword; A Late Awakening, Chapter 5; Numbers Decide, 191-196; Savior of Science, 1-8. For lengthier treatments, most developed in his later writings reflective of his life’s work, see A Mind’s Matter, Chapter 14 and Stanley L. Jaki, Means to a Message: A Treatise on Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999), Chapter 3.
[35] Jaki, Science and Religion, 5.
[36] Jaki, Science and Religion, 28.
[37] Jaki, Science and Religion, 28.
[38] Christopher G. Mo
rris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science & Technology (San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1992), “Science.”
[39] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 3, 96, 247, 255.
[40] Jaki, Means to a Message, 75.
[41] Jaki was fond of this saying and repeated it often.
[42] Ian Sample, “What is this thing we call science? Here’s one definition . . .” at The Guardian News and Media (3 March 2009) at http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/mar/03/science-definition-council-francis-bacon.
[43] Sample, “What is this thing we call science?”
[44] Jaki, A Mind’s Matter, 52, 57.
[45] Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (New York, NY: Free Press, 2010).
[46] Sam Harris, Free Will (New York, NY: Free Press, 2012).
[47] Jaki, A Late Awakening, 66.
[48] Jaki, Science and Religion, 6.
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