 I'm a convert and I, you know, at some point as much as I loved chemistry and I do love chemistry, I love the order and the logic of it, I was compelled to admit there's more to the most pressing questions in life than chemistry can answer. Love is not just chemistry in the brain. You know, I was compelled to admit that and so it was, it took, I really appreciated the treasures in the Catholic Church for explaining to me what it means, what words mean, what words mean, all the words, but especially the word belief because I had never really thought about what it means to believe and I read, you know, in Hebrews that faith is the substance of things unseen. To a chemist, there is a substance there and you can see it and name it and analyze what elements from the periodic table compose it and what percentages. But, you know, I'm kneeling before the Eucharist and I'm like to the priest afterwards, I'm like, you want me just to look at that bread and wine and in a timeless instant that we can't even measure as a nano or a finto second or anything like that. In some timeless instant, knowing the atoms and electrons aren't doing anything different, it's just continuing by all accounts of the best analytical tools in chemistry to continuing to be what it is, bread and wine. I'm just supposed to believe at that moment of consecration that Jesus Christ who lived and died and knows me from 2000 years ago is here with us in the room. You want me just to look at that knowing nothing happens and say, yep, Jesus is here and, you know, the priest is like, that is what we believe. And so, you know, for me, it was like, do you believe it or not? Because if you do believe it, everything in your life has to be structured behind that. I don't have to change a lot of things. If you don't believe it, then go home and, you know, stop coming to Mass. So I decided I did believe it and I do. Every time I'm there, it blows my mind that Christ joins us in Mass. You just have to drive 10 minutes up the road every day to be with Him. We live in an explosion of science. We live in a time when scientific discovery is bringing us more knowledge and more capabilities like we're having this meeting today than ever before in the history of mankind. And there's a dependence on science for truth. Even if you're Catholic, even if you pray the creed and you believe in the real presence of Christ and the Eucharist, we tend to rely on science too much. And I can tell you as a chemist, the things we don't know far, far dwarfs the things that we do know. There's a precious little we can actually know. It's very humbling. And so I think that's eroded faith in the real presence, faith in anything spiritual period. I just think that that people have really in this age of science not understood what it means to have faith or to believe in God. The more that people start to learn about science, the more they're compelled, like I was, I believe, to admit that there's something beyond science. There's recently, I kind of found this funny and frustrating at the same time, the former chair for almost a decade of the astronomy department at Harvard University, who's also on the president council of advisors on science and technology. He's written a new piece in Scientific American about his idea that the universe is created in a laboratory by some better scientists than any of us by an advanced civilization through quantum tunneling. And I'm like, get over it already. Would you just admit it's God? It's great that you concluded as an astronomer at Harvard that there must be some really intelligent designer of the universe. Regenesis 1-1, we've been saying that for a long time. But things like that, while they're frustrating, they also give me hope. It's like, thank you for admitting the obvious. You're a little late to climb this mountain. The other astronomer Robert Gestrow say that the scientists are going to scale the mountain of their knowledge only to find a band of theologians sitting there saying, what took you so long? So I think the more we know about science, the more people are going to find God.