"Great is our fear of the unknown." Titus Livy made this statement at a time when science and religion were the same thing; a time when pagan mysticism wove gracefully into the rare gaps of scientific knowledge. Since then the two have diverged and people – society – have had to make a choice: will science, or religion, satiate the innate curiosity of human beings? This is a question that tormented me for the first fifteen years of my life, a question I pondered constantly. As a boy, you could say I was a religious person; certainly my parents wanted me to be religious and I trusted that judgment. I attended church, albeit sometimes reluctantly, and relied on the information given to me during sermons. But, being the young person I was, I had an endless stream of questions; the desire to understand the world around you is an intrinsic part of being young. The only problem is that, every now and then, a question I asked was met with a blank stare, a moment of perplexed, palpable silence followed by a response I began to fear: "That's just the way it is."...