A faith-like lack of faith

'I left Christianity behind in my teenage years but, predictably, I didn’t leave the questions or the habits of mind I formed within it. For the last fifteen years or so I’ve taken an interest in cosmology and physics. I don’t think it’s because I’m looking for an authoritative view of reality different from the one I grew up with. In fact, these sciences don’t seem to offer that! Perhaps it’s because reading the Bible has given me the habit of trying to imagine the Creation and the End. Religion has given me a taste for ultimate questions. And I find the concept of the origin of the universe more mind-boggling, stranger, more awe-inspiring without theology than with it.' Read more.