Here is this:
If theology were a science, would the object of its study be God? Experimenting with him? Definition of properties? Methods of its application? (Al this is still closer to engineering than to pure science) His position in reality would be clarified with increasing accuracy.
It would be interesting to live in a world with such a theology"
It already was:
At the time, the Israeli technical university "Technion" decided to try to open the Faculty of Theology. The management of the university went to meet and offered a program of study at two departments: “Applied Theology” and “Experimental Theology”. There were no more attempts to introduce the theological faculty in Technion.