In this challenging work, Stanley L. Jaki illuminates the intimate connection between scientific creativity and natural theology. He draws especially upon the history and philosophy of science to show that a rational belief in the existence of a Creator, or at least an epistemology germane to such a belief, played a crucial role in the rise of science and in all its great creative advances. With painstaking attention to original sources, the author pursues his theme through the thought of Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Comte, Mach, Planck, and Einstein. In addition the book offers chapters in which thematic reflections on the history of cosmology and evolutionary theories are built into considerations supporting rational belief in the existence of God. Taken together, these investigations strongly suggest that the road of science and the ways to God form a single intellectual avenue. -- From publisher's description.