Maia recognized a look of true religion in the other woman’s eyes. A version and interpretation that conveniently justified what had already been decided. Glory Season (1993)
Yet where were answers to the truly deep questions?Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don’t look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. Kiln People (2002)