Dr. Stephen Meyer

I had an interview with Piers Morgan recently,

a while back and we got into a discussion about this whole issue of life after death and meaning.

And I said, nothing can mean anything to a rock or a planet or a DNA molecule.

Things only mean things to persons.

This is what was bothering me as a teenager, by the way.

And yet our persons all die.

So unless there's a person whose life persists beyond our graves, there's no possibility of ultimate meaning for human beings.

Ultimately— What's the point?

What's the point?

And I got into a discussion about this with Piers Morgan on air.

He revealed that he'd had a long conversation with Ricky Gervais about this.

Mm-hmm.

And what Ayaan Hirsi Ali was saying is that scientific materialism has no answer except one in the negative to that question.

And now that's not, in a sense, strictly speaking, an evidence for belief in God, but in her view, it was evidence of a failed worldview.

It was a worldview you couldn't live with.

And she's since been, I know, having long conversations with a colleague of mine, John Lennox, and

And finding out that in addition to that deep sense she had that this just won't work is that there's a lot of evidence for belief in God as well.

But so there's a lot of factors going into this.

But there's a Harvard study that came out of young people showing that something like 56% of young people in the 18 to 30 range acknowledge having persistent doubts about whether or not their lives have any –

have any ultimate meaning or purpose.