Dan Brown's inspiration: priest's silence on origins of humans

Dan Brown, author of the renowned novel the "The Da Vinci Code," said in Taipei on Friday that a source of inspiration for his books that often pit science against religion was a priest who avoided his question about the origins of human beings.

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