College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident that the alternatives amounted to superstition.
However, I’ve been back-pedaling. Writing *Human Accomplishment* (2003) forced me to recognize the crucial role that transcendent belief had played not only in Western art, literature, and music—but, to my surprise, in science as well.
Watching my wife’s spiritual evolution from agnosticism to Christianity, I saw that she was acquiring insights I lacked. I began reading C. S. Lewis, who raised questions I couldn’t answer. I also scrutinized New Testament scholarship and found myself more impressed by the evidence supporting it than by the arguments meant to discredit it.
https://www.realclearreligion.org/2025/10/20/can_science_reckon_with_the_human_soul_1141985.html
