Sixty Symbols: Do Physicists Believe in God?

My, I guess, departure from religion came I think as early as nine or ten when we were being taught about a big element of the Catholic faith which is called "transubstantiation". Transubstantiation, for those that don't know, means that during the Eucharist, during the sort-of communion ceremony, the bread is actually physically changed (whatever that means in terms of Catholic doctrine) into the body of Christ. And I got very excited as a nine-year-old, and stuck my hand up excitedly in the class, and said "Look, look, I got a microscope for Christmas! What we can do, we can do this really great experiment, we can look at the host beforehand, and we can do the holy communion thing, and then we can look at it afterwards. Wouldn't that be a great experiment?" And I got sent out of the class, and also, a note was sent to the parish priest. And I was told that those type of questions are not the questions you should ask.

(Updated to add: block quote is from video, not my own story!)