A Flash of Insight About Physics, Reality, and DNA Launched Bruce Buff as a Novelist

It's a remarkable and telling thing about human creativity that ideas come to us so often not through a step-by-step process but in an instant, a flash -- not unlike the way the history of life is characterized by bursts of innovation that seem to come out of nowhere.

In an interview with Catholic News Agency, novelist Bruce Buff describes the burst of insight about DNA that led him, some years later, to write his novel The Soul of the Matter. I reviewed the book here and commented on its th...