 This means that even if Christian theology, or “faith”, as Boethius usually says, were a science, some of its dogmas could not be incorporated in any of the natural sciences. A temporal beginning of the world (creation) cannot, and similarly the notion of a first human being coming into existence without being generated. Nor do the sciences have room for the resurrection of the flesh, for in scientific language that means that an individual may perish (“be corrupted”) and later return numerically the same, and this is not compatible with the Aristotelian science of generation and corruption (cf.  §3.4,  below).