Quoting Stanley Jaki, the physicist, Aeschliman affirms that real science began not with Francis Bacon’s random aggregations of facts but with the preceding recognition that the world was rational and thus could be grasped by human reason. As a product of a transcendent Creator, however, rationality could not be derived from the mind of man, his creature, alone. Here is the central paradox. The world can be apprehended by human reason only to the extent that reason transcends man and partakes of