In recent years the discipline of medicine has been increasingly described as ‘Baconian’ in nature to the degree which it reflects the scientific program laid out by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in his call for the cultivation of inductive knowledge for practical use. Gerald P. McKenny has described the contemporary biomedical project as Baconian in that it is devoted to both the relief of humanity’s estate, and the expansion of choice. The twin ideals of the Baconian Project continue to exert increasing pressures on medicine to expand its understanding of both suffering and wellness, pressures that threaten the integrity of medicine as a discipline with a long tradition of promoting health and caring for the ill. These Baconian ideals of relieving man’s estate and expanding choice, ideals that have themselves been somewhat shaped through cultural and intellectual movements, remain largely unchallenged in our culture. Indeed, so pervasive are these themes that some transhumanists are now identifying their own projects as stemming from, and working within the Baconian tradition, particularly as it relates to attenuating aging in order to significantly extend the human life span. This paper discusses and critiques the theological origins and rationale of Bacon’s call for a new kind of science. While some philosophers have claimed that Bacon was hostile to Christianity, suggesting that his motivations were nothing less than atheistic, there is little doubt that Bacon’s motivation and arguments for a new scientific method were theologically driven, and significantly informed by events recorded in the Book of Genesis. I will argue that the theology behind Bacon’s program, while theocentric in nature, was unacceptably thin christologically, wherein Christians might find the resources to both praise and criticize aspects of the contemporary Baconinan Project that threatens to reshape the discipline of medicine in ways that are as much posthuman as they are antihuman.