I'm 55 years old... been lots of different places... I read Persig for the first time at 13 and about 20 times since... while I think that there is a very low probability in the existence of a "God" as created in Judeo/Christian/Islam religions I cannot definitively stste that there is not one and neither can any of us hairless apes walking this small rock in this cosmos... what I find interesting is the number of people that are non believers, the intellectual as it were, who serms to take such pride in differentiating themselves from those that are and seem to asdume this mantle of superiority to those that are... serms to me that our collective knowledge as a species is very a small population of the data set... Einstein believed in a god... does that make him stupid?... it seems some use their belief as a readon to seperate themselves as a group and find themselves somehow intellectually and morally superior to others... kinda like all those religious fanatics... just one dust motes way of thinking about it...