‘Those who seek Christ will find him’: Another philosopher at Princeton converts to Catholicism

Noah McKay, a philosophy doctoral student at Princeton University, has converted to Catholicism. McKay told EWTN News that while he was never an atheist or an agnostic, he struggled for years with uncertainties regarding the problem of evil, the problem of divine hiddenness, and the reliability of the Bible.

McKay stated that design arguments regarding the fine-tuning of physics for life and empirical evidence for contemporary Christian miracles convinced him of theism. He also noted that arguments from consciousness, moral knowledge, and natural beauty influenced his decision.

McKay is the second Princeton philosophy scholar to convert this year. Earlier this summer, Joe Schmid announced his return to the faith after previously running an agnostic-themed philosophy channel on YouTube.