Claim. Religion and science are the two providential responses to internal and external ignorance; they must eventually converge into “one united undertaking” that resolves both kinds of ignorance together. Their long independence is provisional. Convergence is the necessary terminal state, and the present age stands at its threshold.
Elaboration. Per 2.3. Human History Is the History of the Providence of Restoration: “Religion and science inevitably must converge. Today they are on the threshold of reaching this destination, where they will resolve all their problems together in one united undertaking.” Religion addresses internal ignorance (about God, meaning, the spiritual); science addresses external ignorance (about the natural world). Both belong to the providence of restoration.
DP further claims that without the fall, “the development of the intellectual capacity of our early human ancestors would have enabled them to reach the highest level of spiritual knowledge, thus naturally stimulating their knowledge of the material world to develop to a corresponding degree.” Modern scientific advancement is therefore a restoration of what would have been native to humanity, not a fallen civilization’s contingent achievement. The science/religion split is a wound of the fall; reunification is restoration.
This claim is load-bearing for the new truth thesis in §5: the new expression of truth must be the instrument by which the convergence is achieved.
See also. dp-history-is-providence-of-restoration, dp-third-blessing-being-restored-via-internal-and-external-dominion