fred de sam lazaro in jakarta. >> abernethy: we have a profile now of the much-honored writer marilynne robinson who won a pulitzer prize for her novel "gilead" and who has a non- fiction book coming out later this spring about religion and science. robinson is a mainline protestant with great respect for calvinist theology. also, as i discovered, she has strong opinions about the world around her. marilynne robinson's view of the world was formed in the mountains of idaho, where she grew up. in the solitude and wilderness, she sensed a larger presence. >> that never felt like emptiness. it always felt like presence. it always seemed as if there was something extraordinary around me. the holy is at the origins of everything that exists. everything. "so i have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes." >> abernethy: in iowa, where she lives now, teaching writing at the university of iowa, robinson tells her students to think for themselves. >> i want them to know that they have their own testimony to offer, that if they are