FROM BELIEF TO UNBELIEF AND HALFWAY BACK

Through autobiography, I explain why I cannot accept conventional Chri stianity or any other form of religious belief. I sketch how, through modern evolutionary theory, I try to find an alternative world-picture , one which is, however, essentially agnostic about ultimate meanings. I characterize my position as being that of ''David Hume brought up-t o-date by Charles Darwin.'' I express sad skepticism about ever realiz ing the hopes on which Zygon was founded.