Chapter I
Introduction to Science and Christian Theology
pp. 1–19 · 4,493 words · 20 min read
The relationship between theology and science — their domains and methods — and the historical interplay from cooperation to the conflict thesis.
The official study companion
FIC 303
Faith, Innovation & Creation
Science and Christian theology in conversation — read the complete course text, explore four chapters of the story, and sit for the examination against a bank of six hundred questions.
- 4
- Chapters
- 600
- Questions
- 8 min
- Per exam
The Course
Where faith meets the laboratory
FIC 303 examines the relationship between scientific inquiry and Christian theology — not as rivals, but as two ways of reading one truthful creation.
FIC 303 — Faith, Innovation and Creation is a course about reconciliation: the mending of a conversation that history tried to break. It opens with the conviction that all truth belongs to God — that looking carefully at nature does not shame the Creator but shows His work more clearly.
Across four chapters the course traces an arc. It begins with the domains and methods of science and theology and the history of their interplay — from Aquinas through Galileo and Darwin to the dismantled “conflict thesis.” It continues through creation, order and discoverability: why a rational universe invites human investigation, and why mathematics so often reads like the handwriting of a orderly Mind.
The third chapter confronts brokenness — the noetic effects of sin, pride in research, and the hard-won ethics of Nuremberg and Helsinki. The final chapter turns to redemption: innovation, medicine, engineering and agriculture as collaboration with God in the healing of the world — science for the common good.
“Great are the works of the Lord, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.”
The Chapters
Four movements of one story
From introduction to redemption — each chapter is readable in full, verbatim, inside the Library.
Chapter II
Creation, Order, and Discoverability
pp. 20–37 · 4,685 words · 21 min read
The doctrine of creation, the rational order of the universe, and why the world is intelligible and discoverable by human minds.
Chapter III
Brokenness and Scientific Ethics
pp. 38–49 · 3,305 words · 15 min read
The fall, the noetic effects of sin, and the moral safeguards of research ethics from Nuremberg to modern accountability.
Chapter IV
Redemption and Innovation for the Common Good
pp. 49–63 · 3,820 words · 17 min read
Redemption as cosmic restoration — innovation, science and culture as collaboration with God for the healing of the world.
The Library
Read the course, word for word
The complete text of all four chapters, transcribed verbatim from the course material — with reading progress, chapter tabs and minute estimates.
The Exam Hall
Sit for the examination
Twenty questions drawn from the six-hundred-question bank — each answer proved against the course text. The engine holds back every question you have already seen.
Sit the paper whenever you are ready — the invigilator is already watching the clock.
20 questions per sitting
8 minutes
600-question bank
Anti-repetition engine