Koch replied: “I lost my religious faith as I matured.”
His reflection there reveals his characterization of religious faith: “it’s a childish state from which one should hope to mature.” It strikes me that this caricature is itself a sort of adolescent approach which cannot find comfort in its own body and must impatiently discard one thing only to seek it by other names.
He certainly has the right to use whatever names he wants if “faith” is too frightening a label to keep around. But my impression is that such faith as he does have (invested where he chooses to place it anyway) has matured quite a bit - which isn’t necessarily to say it’s a healthy direction or that it’s not. But whatever it is, it now has his life experiences all bearing their respective fruits in his present reflections which I think does have good and deep wisdom to share.
It is fascinating to me that it would take an expert with a microscope to distinguish between human, or dog or mouse brain tissue. And it makes me wonder what the expert would be looking for and how would they know? Would it have to be down to a DNA level analysis?