An article from a few months back by Umberto Eco on the “need” for God in the secular world (with spill over effects like the “Da Vinci Code”). See Telegraph | Opinion | God isn’t big enough for some people.
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious – to such an extent that it sometimes seems to me that to be a rigorous unbeliever today, you have to be a philosopher. Or perhaps a priest.
Via : Ernesto Burden | Umberto Eco on The Da Vinci Code’s and the Culture That Idolizes (literally) It.