He argues that scientific methods are necessary for understanding the universe because human senses provide an incomplete and limited perception of reality.

“The methods of science give you a way to understand what is true without it being hinged on whether your senses think it's true.”

The standard Lambda CDM model of cosmology explains such a wide range of diverse phenomena that it should not be discarded despite current observational challenges.

“this model has been extraordinarily successful as indeed has the standard model in in particle physics it explains such a wide span of observations that were you to throw it out it would it would be extremely difficult to understand how it could coincidentally explain such a vast array”