Dr. Stephen Meyer

I got out of the cast.

But I'd have these recurrent bouts of this kind of metaphysical panic.

And I didn't know what it was until I got to college, and I had a philosophy professor, and he was teaching the work of the atheistic existentialists, Jean-Paul Sartre and the depressing French philosophers.

And Sartre had this quote.

He said, without an infinite reference point, nothing finite has any lasting or enduring meaning.

And I thought –

oh, that's what was bothering me.

And I rushed up after class to talk to the professor.

And I said, because I told him about some of this stuff that had gone on with me as a teenager.

And I said, I wasn't insane.

I was just a philosopher.

And he said, well, but there's a fine line between philosophy and insanity.

But what happened for me is, you mentioned the biblical worldview.

So I started

I don't know, I was maybe a sophomore in high school.

A couple years later, I picked up the big, white, fat Catholic family Bible.

We were sort of lapsed Catholics, nominal.

And I opened it, and it fell open to a page between the two Testaments, you know, the picture.

Not of, you know, Jesus with lipstick on, you know, the kind that sometimes you see in some sacred art.

But it was, no, it was a manly picture.