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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.