What is it that caused you to develop a critical thinking about evolution, tell us about that?
A. When I was in my graduate work I did my Ph.D. work at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, at that time, pretty much through college and through my graduate work I was agnostic. I grew up Presbyterian, but that didn’t last past high school very well. And so when I got to college and undergraduate school I– my faith lapsed rather quickly. Later on in graduate school I met a girl who I was interested in. She was interested in taking classes in the bible. I thought, well, I haven’t really looked at the bible since I was a teenager, maybe I ought to look at it and maybe get a little better look at her as well and ended up marrying her 27 years ago. But through that experience I had, I think, a new look at Christianity and I became a Christian so my world view changed at that point. And although I was not in my particular– in my research I was not doing anything that had to do with evolution, I was studying really what almost all scientists study, which is what I call operational science, how
