For me, Christianity is both intellectually robust and existentially satisfying.

There is something really exquisitely beautiful about the natural world and about the way we're able to understand it.

I just look around at the world—the incredible rich fecundity of the world, the beauty of the world—and it seems very hard for me to believe that that could simply have popped into being out of ideological nothingness or just be something of an infinite regress of causes. It seems to make a lot more sense that this would be the principal explanation coming from a being that was outside of space in time.

I think quite decisively and historically that these ideas— these metaphysical underpinnings of science, uniformity, regularity, and intelligibility—have deep theological roots.

Starting from the assumption that there is a God makes a lot more sense of the way the world is. I think it explains in a natural way the basis for modern science, for why we see beauty and fecundity in the natural world. I think it helps grounds really important questions—moral questions, a kind of moral realism, questions of human dignity and value—in ways that are absolutely critical.

The resurrection, life, and teachings of Jesus Christ have exactly that kind of unexpected character. And once you find that, it is something very deep and powerful—just like when you first look at your theory of anything that has this completely unexpected but deep, beautiful, non-intuitive and powerful truth to it. I see this in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.