Dr. Stephen Meyer

They passed away at some point, they died.

Ted Williams is no longer with us.

I think he had the greatest swing ever.

I read his book on hitting, but at the end of the day, there's a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper, and that's the measure of a person's life.

Or is it?

Could there be something more?

And then I raised this with my mother who hated sports and she thought it was, you know, the grown men chasing a ball around was her thing always.

But, you know, she said, well, that's because you should be a surgeon.

Well, okay, what if I'm a surgeon?

Then I'll save people's lives and they'll live for a while, but then they'll die.

And so it was like that old Charlie Brown cartoon where Lucy's skipping rope and then suddenly she stops.

It all seems so pointless after a while.

And I could see this rhythm to life of routine, but it didn't seem to be going anywhere.

And then I had weird thoughts about time, which also really freaked me out because you could take an event.

I can remember that event.

It just happened, right?

But it's already gone.

Where did it go?

And I just had this weird feeling.

There had to be something somewhere that didn't change or everything that was constantly changing was of no ultimate significance.